SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

ADDRESSES COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Representatives of Three United Nations Mechanisms

on Human Rights of Indigenous People Also Deliver Statements

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UNITED NATIONS TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION

OF WALL IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

Meeting to be Held on 15 and 16 April at United Nations Office at Geneva

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Fifty-eighth General Assembly                              

Under-Secretary-general ENCOURAGED BY PROGRESS

ON CEASEFIRE NEGOTIATIONS FOR DARFUR, SUDAN

NEW YORK, 8 April (Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs) -- “I am encouraged by the positive signals that a humanitarian ceasefire may soon be signed by parties to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan”, said United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland.

ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ESTABLISHES

 

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE

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GENEVA, 8 April (UN Information Service) – The Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, has established an Independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations committed during an anti-government protest in Côte d’Ivoire two weeks ago.

Secretary-General pays tribute to Rwandans for ‘remarkable resilience

and great dignity’ in recovering from genocide

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, in Kigali, delivered by Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa:

‘risk of genocide remains frightEningly real’, secretary-general tells human

rights commission as he launches action plan to prevent genocide

Following is the text of the address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today:

It is good that we have observed those minutes of silence together.

Secretary-general saddened at deaths of six un peacekeepers

in democratic republic of congo

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

‘we must remember the victims’, says secretary-general in message to headquarters

observance of 10TH anniversary of genocide in rwanda

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the ceremony and “minute of silence” at United Nations Headquarters marking the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, delivered today by Catherine Bertini, Under-Secretary-General for Management:

Technology Fair of Future to take place in Sao Paulo, 14 – 18 June

Promising New Technologies for Developing World

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