Press Release

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS FIFTY-NINTH SESSION

High Commissioner for Human Rights:  One Cannot Compromise

Hard-Won Human Rights to Give States Free Hand in Fighting Terrorism

(Reissued as received.)

Conference on Illicit Small Arms Trade in South-Eastern Europe concludes

EXPERT REVIEW OF REGISTER OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS AT HEADQUARTERS, 17-21 MARCH

NEW YORK, 17 March (Department for Disarmament Affairs) -- A group of governmental experts on the continuing operation and further development of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms is holding its first meeting for the year from 17 to 21 March at United Nations Headquarters.  This is the fourth review of the Register; previous reviews were conducted in 1994, 1997 and 2000.

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

13^th Meeting (PM)

WOMEN’S COMMISSION ADOPTS AGREED CONCLUSIONS ON MEDIA, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES,

TEXTS ON AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINIAN WOMEN, HIV/AIDS

GLOBALIZATION TODAY HAS ‘WINNERS AND LOSERS’; CHALLENGE FOR TOMORROW

IS TO MAKE IT WORK FOR ALL, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

Following are the remarks of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as he introduced Jagdish Bhagwati, Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz at the Headquarters lecture, “Globalization:  Winners and Losers”, on 14 March:

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BUSH ON PRESENTATION

OF ‘ROAD MAP’ TO ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS

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

SECRETARY-GENERAL GRAVELY CONCERNED AT RISING CASUALTIES IN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT; URGES IMMEDIATE END TO VIOLENCE

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

The Secretary-General is gravely concerned at the rising and alarming toll of casualties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  In the last 24 hours alone,

FORTY YEARS AFTER SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE, FIGHT AGAINST RACISM NOT YET WON,

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY

Following is the message of Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which is observed 21 March:

PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON INDICTMENTS

BY SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT

Following is today’s statement to the press by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea) on the announcement of indictments by the Sierra Leone Special Court:

PRESS STATEMENT ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s statement to the press on Côte d’Ivoire by Security Council President Mamady Traoré (Guinea):