AFGHANISTAN EXPECTS BUMPER HARVEST -– CHRONIC UNDERNUTRITION REMAINS HIGH

Despite New Pledges, FAO Faces Funding Gap of $10 - 15 Million

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ROME, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- Farmers in Afghanistan are about to harvest the biggest wheat crop in two decades, said Serge Verniau, Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Kabul.

Background Release

SUBCOMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TO MEET IN GENEVA, 28 JULY TO 15 AUGUST

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GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights' principal subsidiary organ, will hold its fifty-fifth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 28 July to 15 August.

ECOSOC ADOPTS THIRTEEN RESOLUTIONS AND FOUR DECISIONS

Approves Suspension of Consultative Status of Reporters

sans frontières with United Nations System for One Year after Extended Debate

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GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning adopted 13 resolutions and four decisions submitted under various items of its agenda. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY INCREASED VIOLENCE IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR; URGES RESTRAINT BY THOSE CONCERNED

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by the increase in violence in Jammu and Kashmir in the past two days and expresses his condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives. 

Security Council

4792^nd Meeting (AM)

FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM WOULD BE LONG WITH NO SHORT CUTS, COUNTER-TERRORISM

COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

United Nations Cartographic Conference for Asia and Pacific CONCLUDES IN Okinawa

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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR

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GENEVA, 23 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration, carried out over three meetings, of the third periodic report of El Salvador on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

ECOSOC ADOPTS DECISIONS RECOMMENDED BY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Also Adopts Resolution on Long-term Support for Haiti

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ECOSOC ADOPTS TEXTS ON PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE, LEBANESE DETAINEES

IN ISRAEL, HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR

Begins Consideration of Human Rights and Indigenous Issues

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MAIN THEME OF 2003 ECONOMIC REPORT ON AFRICA IS ‘ACCELERATING PACE OF DEVELOPMENT’

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