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SG/SM/8323

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS HUMAN TRAFFICKING ‘ONE OF THE GREATEST HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’ OF TODAY

01/08/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8323


SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS HUMAN TRAFFICKING ‘ONE OF THE GREATEST

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’ OF TODAY


Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the International Summit on Human Trafficking, Child Abuse, Labour and Slavery, to be delivered by Antonio Maria Costa, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria, 2-4 August 2002:

SG/SM/8321

SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MYANMAR TO REVISIT YANGON, 2 - 6 AUGUST

31/07/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8321


SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MYANMAR TO REVISIT YANGON, 2 - 6 AUGUST


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


Razali Ismail, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, will return to Yangon from 2 to 6 August 2002 to help facilitate the national reconciliation process in Myanmar.

SG/SM/8320

FOLLOWING HEBREW UNIVERSITY BOMB ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES CONDEMNATION OF ‘ALL SUCH ATTACKS’ AGAINST CIVILIANS

31/07/2002
Press Release
SG/SM/8320


FOLLOWING HEBREW UNIVERSITY BOMB ATTACK, SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES

CONDEMNATION OF ‘ALL SUCH ATTACKS’ AGAINST CIVILIANS


The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


The Secretary-General is appalled by today's bomb attack at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in which seven people were killed and more than

SG/A/813-AFR/444

APPOINTMENTS TO SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT

26/07/2002
Press Release
SG/A/813
AFR/444


APPOINTMENTS TO SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT


The Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone, in implementation of the relevant provisions of the Agreement on the Establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone, signed in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 16 January, have today announced the appointments of eight judges who will serve on the Trial Chamber and the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court which has its seat in Freetown.