Third Committee

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3438

SECRETARY-GENERAL WOULD BE ASKED TO CONSIDER LAUNCHING DECADE TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY, BY THIRD COMMITTEE TEXT

19971106

The General Assembly would ask the Secretary-General, to consider ways to achieve the goal of education for all, including the feasibility of launching a United Nations decade to eradicate illiteracy, by the terms of a draft resolution approved this afternoon by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural).

6 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3437

GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST INTOLERANCE REMAINS MAJOR CHALLENGE OF PRESENT ERA, ASSEMBLY'S THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD

19971106 As Wide-Ranging Debate Begins, Speakers Highlight Current Problems, Including Use of Internet for Racist Propaganda

4 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3436

ARMED ELEMENTS MUST BE REMOVED FROM REFUGEE CAMPS, REPRESENTATIVE OF RWANDA TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S THIRD COMMITTEE

19971104 Similar Problem Reported in Democratic Republic of Congo As Debate Concludes on Activities of UN High Commissioner

4 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3435

3 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3434

GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS ASKED TO SEEK BETTER COORDINATION BETWEEN UN INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN AND OTHER AGENCIES

19971103 Third Committee Also Adopts Text on Migrant Workers: Debate Continues On Refugees, With Warning of 'Compassion Fatigue' in Affected Countries

3 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3433

HIGH COMMISSIONER SAYS REFUGEE CRISIS IN GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA WITHOUT PRECEDENT IN HISTORY OF UNHCR

19971103 Third Committee is Told of `Disturbing' Inaction by International Community against Breakdown in Fundamental Humanitarian Principles

3 November 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3432

31 October 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3431

FIGHT AGAINST CHILD ABUSE MUST NOT REST, KENYA TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

19971031 Warns of Increased Internet Use for Child Pornography; Committee Concludes Consideration of Rights of the Child

31 October 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3430

WAR AGAINST CHILD LABOUR CAN BE WON WITHIN 15 YEARS, ILO REPRESENTATIVE TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

19971031 International Labour Organization Seeks Convention By 1999 To Suppress Extreme Forms of Child Labour, He Says

30 October 1997

Press Release
GA/SHC/3429

GAP PERSISTS BETWEEN PRINCIPLES OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION, DAILY VIOLATION OF THOSE RIGHTS, BRAZIL TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE

19971030 Cites Abuses of Child Pornography, Child Labour, Effects of Conflict; Others Address Declining Conditions in Africa, Poverty and Child Labour