Press Release

11 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/983

WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF REPORT BY LUXEMBOURG

19970711 Experts Emphasize Importance of Removing Reservations to Convention

11 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/982

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF NAMIBIA'S INITIAL REPORT

19970711 Experts Commend Government's Achievements within Seven Years of Independence

11 July 1997

Press Release
SC/6395

SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS ALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN CAMBODIA AND CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE END TO FIGHTING

19970711 Presidential Statement Also Urges Parties To Resolve Differences Peacefully and through Political Dialogue

11 July 1997

Press Release
SC/6394

SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RESTORATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER IN SIERRA LEONE

19970711

Rejecting as "unacceptable" the attempt to overthrow the democratically elected Government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, the Security Council this afternoon again called for the immediate and unconditional restoration of constitutional order in the country.

11 July 1997

Press Release
SC/6393

ECOWAS ASKS SECURITY COUNCIL TO SEND 'UNEQUIVOCAL MESSAGE' TO SIERRA LEONE REGIME TO RETURN LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT KABBAH TO POWER

19970711 Zimbabwe's Representative Expresses OAU Chairman's Support for ECOWAS 'Noble Mission'

11 July 1997

Press Release
PI/1018*

11 July 1997

Press Release
HR/CT/495

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD SIXTIETH SESSION IN GENEVA, 14 JULY TO 1 AUGUST

19970711 Background Release

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 11 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee will consider reports from Slovakia, Belarus, France, Congo and India on efforts to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights when it meets in Geneva from 14 July to 1 August.

11 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5720

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON FRESHWATER RESOURCES

19970711 (Reissued as received.)

11 July 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5719

PROBLEMS POSED BY FRESHWATER SUPPLIES REVIEWED BY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19970711 (Reissued as received.)

10 July 1997

Press Release
WOM/981

IMPACT OF DECLINE IN FERTILITY RATE ON IMPROVEMENT OF STATUS OF WOMEN AMONG ISSUES RAISED BY WOMEN'S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE

19970710

Experts in the 23-member Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon noted the decline in fertility rate in Antigua and Barbuda, as they discussed the initial, second and third periodic reports of that country.