Background Release

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION FROM 12 TO 30 NOVEMBER

Committee Scheduled to Consider Efforts

Of Sweden, Colombia, Algeria, France, Croatia and Jamaica

(Reissued as received; delayed in transmission.)

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

39^th Meeting (PM)

SITUATION OF MIGRANTS MORE DIFFICULT SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER ATTACKS,

THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD AS HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE CONTINUES

Committee Hears Rights of Reply from 13 Countries

Responding to Statements Alleging Human Rights Abuses

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Third Committee

38^th Meeting (AM)

COUNTRIES TO FOCUS ON RESTORATION OF AFGHAN SOCIETY RESPECTING ALL HUMAN RIGHTS,

SPEAKERS TELL THIRD COMMITTEE

General Debate Opens on Human Rights

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

26^th Meeting (AM)

LEGAL COMMITTEE ENDS CURRENT DEBATE ON PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL

CRIMINAL COURT, TAKES ACTION ON OTHER ISSUES

Texts Approved on Assistance in Law Training, Relations with Host

Country, General Assembly Observer Status for Global Development Institute

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

51^st Meeting (PM)

WHILE FOCUS ON TERRORISM WARRANTED, WORLD’S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, POLITICAL,

HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS NEED ATTENTION, GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOLD

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Plenary

50^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY WARNED OF CONTINUING THREAT FROM GLOBAL WARMING,

RISING SEA LEVEL DANGER TO ISLAND NATIONS

As Main Debate Continues, President of Micronesia Says States

Least Responsible for Problem Are on ‘Front-line’ in Facing Consequence

Conference on Facilitating the Entry

into Force of the Comprehensive

 Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

5^th Meeting (AM)

STATES PARTIES STRESS DETERMINATION TO PROMOTE EARLY ENTRY INTO FORCE

OF NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY, AS CONFERENCE CONCLUDES AT HEADQUARTERS

Final Declaration Calls for Moratorium on Nuclear Testing;

Treaty Has 87 Ratifications, but Needs 13 More States from ‘Annex 2’

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN MESSAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL DAY OF TOLERANCE, SAYS RESPONSE

TO 11 SEPTEMBER ATTACKS HAS UNITED GLOBAL FAMILY AS NEVER BEFORE

This is the text of the message from Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance (being observed on 16 November):

SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES IMPLEMENTATION OF LEGAL INSTRUMENTS ON TERRORISM,

RENEWS CALL FOR AGREEMENT ON COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION

Security Council Is Told United Nations ‘Uniquely Placed’

To Foster Cooperation among Governments in Taking Needed Action

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