Note No. 5788/Rev.1*

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EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR VOICES SORROW OVER DEATH OF ICRC STAFF

MEMBER IN IRAQ; ALSO EXPRESSES CONCERN FOR MISSING NGO STAFF

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PRESENTS REPORT

TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Debate Continues on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)

EXPERTS ON MIGRANTS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, SLAVERY

PRESENT REPORTS TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Commission Continues General Debate on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

General Committee

6^th Meeting (AM)

SECRETARY-GENERAL ‘DEEPLY CONCERNED’ BY ISRAEL’S AIR ATTACK IN GAZA,

RESULTING IN DEATHS OF SEVEN PALESTINIANS

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

‘TO EDUCATE GIRLS IS TO REDUCE POVERTY’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

IN MESSAGE TO GLOBAL EDUCATION CAMPAIGN EVENT

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for “The World’s Biggest Lesson” held during the Global Action Week of the Global Campaign for Education, at Headquarters 9 April:

To educate girls is to reduce poverty. That is the lesson that unites us today.

OMBUDSMAN APPOINTED FOR UN IN VIENNA

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Note to Correspondents

‘GREAT MASTERS OF MEXICAN FOLK ART’ EXHIBIT TO OPEN AT UN HEADQUARTERS ON 10 APRIL

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico Luis Ernesto Derbez will open “Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art” Thursday, 10 April, at 6 p.m. in the United Nations Visitors’ Lobby.

IRAQ FIGHTING FURTHER IMPERILS EXPECTANT MOTHERS, UNFPA WARNS

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