COUNTRIES TRADE BARBS OVER ‘SELECTIVITY’ IN HUMAN RIGHTS,

DEBATE JUSTIFICATIONS OF WAR IN IRAQ

Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty

Presents Report to Commission on Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES DEBATE ON QUESTION

OF VIOLATIONS ANYWHERE IN WORLD

Special Rapporteurs on Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq,

Personal Representative on Cuba, and Justice Minister of Congo Speak

(Reissued as received.)

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CELEBRATES ‘DIVERSITY AND RICHNESS’ ABORIGINAL PEOPLE

GIVE TO HUMAN FAMILY, AT OTTAWA AWARDS CEREMONY

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Ceremony in Ottawa on 28 March:

Disarmament Commission

2003 Substantive Session

254^th & 255^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WORLD ORDER BASED ON EFFECTIVE ARMS CONTROL, REJECTION OF UNILATERAL USE

OF FORCE CALLED FOR IN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL SHASHI THAROOR

COORDINATOR FOR MULTILINGUALISM

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN APRIL

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for April:

Security Council

FROM FARM TO TABLE:  A GLOBAL APPROACH TO FOOD SAFETY

Linking Food Chain

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 31 March (FAO) -- Food safety is a global issue which demands an integrated, global response.

But the answer to tackling the issue of food-borne hazards which know no geographical boundaries lies very close to home -- in the farms, fields, orchards and rivers, large or small -- where our food has its source.

Commission on Population and Development                  POP/856        

Thirty-sixth Session                                         31 March 2003

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN APRIL 2003

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in April, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings continued from previous month:

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly                                L/3028*