Security Council

4718^th Meeting (PM)

FIFTY-NINTH SESSION OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS GENEVA,

17 MARCH TO 25 APRIL 2003

Information for Media Coverage of the Session

GENEVA, 12 March (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights will hold its fifty-ninth session from Monday, 17 March to Friday,

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-seventh Session

10^th Meeting (AM)

WOMEN’S COMMISSION DRAFT TEXT URGES AFGHAN TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITY TO REPEAL

DISCRIMINATORY LEGISLATION, ENABLE WOMEN’S FULL CIVIC PARTICIPATION

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS ‘END OF ROAD’ REACHED CONCERNING CURRENT CYPRUS TALKS,

BUT ‘PLAN REMAINS ON THE TABLE’

Following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, read today by Alvaro de Soto, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus, at The Hague:

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS KILLING OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN LIBERIA

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for the

Secretary-General:

The Secretary-General strongly condemns the killing of Emmanuel Sharpulo, and Musa Kita, Liberian nationals, and Kaare Lund, a Norwegian national,

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT JUDGES EMBODY ‘OUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE’

SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO INAUGURAL MEETING IN THE HAGUE

Following is the statement of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the inaugural meeting of judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on 11 March:

It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment.

Security Council

4717^th Meeting* (PM)

AT REQUEST OF NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES, SECURITY COUNCIL HEARS VIEWS

OF LARGER UN MEMBERSHIP ON DISARMAMENT OF IRAQ

UNRWA SCHOOL IN BEIT LAHIA DAMAGED BY ISRAELI MILITARY

(Reissued as received.)

GAZA, 10 March (UNRWA) -- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is to protest to the Government of Israel at the wanton damage done to one of its schools during Israel’s weekend occupation of part of Beit Lahia in the Northern Gaza Strip.

WILL THEY SURVIVE WAR?  UNICEF RACING TO BOLSTER STRENGTH

OF 400,000 MALNOURISHED CHILDREN IN IRAQ

Hundreds of Tonnes of High-Nutrient Foods Arriving to Boost Their Chances

(Reissued as received.)

Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Fifth Committee (Resumed)

44^th Meeting (AM)                   

FIFTH COMMITTEE WELCOMES NEW UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MANAGEMENT;

CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF JIU REPORTS

Results-Based Budgeting ‘A Work in Progress’, Committee Told