(Reproduced as received from UN Information Service.)
(Reproduced as received from UN Information Service.)
The Secretary-General is appalled by the terrorist attack in Cairo today, which killed 18 people and injured at least a dozen more. He condemns terrorism in all its forms and urges an end to wanton slaughter as means to achieve political ends.
The Secretary-General has learned with shock and horror of the shelling of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) position near the village of Qaana in southern Lebanon.
GENEVA, 17 April (UN Information Service) -- Over 40 non-governmental organizations took the floor at this afternoon's meeting of the Commission on Human Rights to denounce human rights violations around the world, while 13 country delegations defended their respective governments' records.
GENEVA, 17 April (UN Information Service) -- Governments should be held accountable when human rights violations took place, and no screen of national sovereignty could prevent the international community from identifying abuses, the representative of the European Union told the Commission on Human Rights this morning.
