Press Release

Commission on Population and Development                   

Thirty-seventh Session                                     

5^th and 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

UN ICT TASK FORCE, WIRELESS INTERNET INSTITUTE UNVEIL

WIRELESS UNIVERSAL CONNECTIVITY INITIATIVES

Note to Correspondents

DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED AND MISSING STAFF MEMBERS, 25 MARCH

TO STRESS RISKS FACED BY UN STAFF, REPORTERS AROUND WORLD

Human Rights Committee                                     

REPRESENTATIVE ON SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA CITES

‘UNPRECEDENTED WAVE OF OPPRESSION’ IN THE COUNTRY

Construction of Security Barrier Criticized as Commission

Concludes Debate on Situation in Occupied ArabTerritories

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION STARTS GENERAL DEBATE ON VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

IN OCCUPIED ARABTERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

Concludes Discussion on Right to Development

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION HOLDS SPECIAL SITTING ON SITUATION IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN

TERRITORY FOLLOWING THE KILLING OF SHEIKH YASSIN

Adopts Resolution Which Condemns Continuing Grave Violations

Of Human Rights in Territory, Including Tragic Assassination of Sheikh Yassin

(Reissued as received.)

Montreal Protocol Talks to Consider Exemptions From Methyl Bromide Ban

MONTREAL/NAIROBI, 23 March (UNEP) -- A three-day meeting of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will consider granting exemptions to 12 developed countries so that they can use the pesticide methyl bromide for certain “critical uses” after its phase-out date of 1 January 2005.

THREATS FACED BY UN STAFF, NGOS, MEDIA REMAIN PROFOUND, SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN MESSAGE FOR DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH MISSING STAFF

Following is the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members, 25 March 2004:

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