Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

2010^th Meeting (PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS ESTABLISHING TASK FORCES TO STREAMLINE WORK

The Committee on Human Rights –- the body charged with monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -– met briefly this afternoon to consider the feasibility of creating task forces to help focus its discussions and streamline its working methods.

Human Rights Committee

Seventy-fourth Session

2009^th Meeting* (AM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE HEARS ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT CONCERNING

INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

‘REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS ONE OF EASIEST WAYS TO IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN

HEALTH’, SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT, IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message from Han Seung-soo (Republic of Korea), the President of the General Assembly, for World Health Day, 7 April 2002:

‘DEVELOPMENT CANNOT BE IMPOSED FROM OUTSIDE’; HOMEGROWN STRATEGY

IS NEEDED, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

The following is the text of an address by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at Yale University, entitled “A New Consensus on Development?  Moving on from Monterrey”, delivered in New Haven, Connecticut, on 3 April:

UNFPA, AFGHAN HEALTH MINISTRY RUSH MEDICAL TEAM TO SUPPORT

SAFE MOTHERHOOD FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

Security Council

4506^th Meeting* (AM & PM)

FIFTY-EIGHT SPEAKERS ADDRESS SECURITY COUNCIL IN DAY-LONG MIDDLE EAST DEBATE;

STRESS NEED TO IMPLEMENT COUNCIL'S CALL FOR CEASEFIRE, ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-fifth Session

6^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION COMMENDS POPULATION DIVISION FOR EXCELLENCE,

USEFULNESS OF ITS CONTRIBUTION

Committee Also Hears from NGOs on Future World Demographic Trends

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-fifth Session

5^th Meeting (AM)

ABORTION, CORRELATION BETWEEN POVERTY, FERTILITY RATES AMONG ISSUES DISCUSSED

DPI LAUNCHES UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE BY E-MAIL;

UN NEWS CENTRE WEB SITE IS UPGRADED

PALESTINE RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY WARNS OF HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

IN WEST BANK CITIES, TOWNS, REFUGEE CAMPS