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Press Release

HR/CT/456

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF REPORT OF SPAIN

20 March 1996


Press Release
HR/CT/456


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF REPORT OF SPAIN

19960320

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was part and parcel of Spain's domestic legal order and was directly invoked in the courts, the Human Rights Committee was told this afternoon by that country's delegation, as it began consideration of Spain's fourth periodic report.

HR/CT/455

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF THIRD PERIODIC REPORT OF MAURITIUS

20 March 1996


Press Release
HR/CT/455


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF THIRD PERIODIC REPORT OF MAURITIUS

19960320 Also Approves List of Questions for Nigeria

Serious attempts were being made in Mauritius to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, experts of the Human Rights Committee, the Covenant's monitoring body, stated this morning, as they concluded consideration of that country's third periodic report.

HR/CN/707

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

20 March 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/707


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE

19960320 Hears Statement from French Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action

GENEVA, 20 March (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this afternoon began its discussion of the question of human rights violations in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine.

DH/2105

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 20 March 1996

20 March 1996


Press Release
DH/2105


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 20 March 1996

19960320 * New walls of misunderstanding in post cold-war period cast compatriots against one another, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says.

* Secretary-General to send fact-finding mission to Nigeria, at request of Nigerian Government.