International Covenant on Civil

 and Political Rights

29^th Meeting (AM)

States Parties to International Civil, political rights

 

covenant elect nine members to monitoring body

 

WORKING GROUP ON ARBITRARY DETENTION TO MEET IN GENEVA FROM 13 TO 17 SEPTEMBER

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GENEVA, 8 September (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will hold its fortieth session from 13 to 17 September 2004 in Geneva.

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD TO HOLD THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION

IN GENEVA FROM 13 SEPTEMBER TO 1 OCTOBER

Reports from Brazil, Botswana, Croatia, Bahamas, Kyrgyzstan,

Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda to Be Considered

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VERNOR MUÑOZ VILLALOBOS APPOINTED UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO EDUCATION

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GENEVA, 30 August (UN Information Service) -- United Nations Commission on Human Rights Chairman Mike Smith has appointed Vernor Muñoz Villalobos of Costa Rica as Special Rapporteur on the right to education.  The appointment was made on 13 July 2004 in consultation with representatives of the different regional groups in the Commission.

‘jews everywhere must feel that the United Nations is their home, too,’

Secretary-General tells seminar on anti-semitism

Daylong Programme Is First in Series on ‘Unlearning Intolerance’

ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DISAPPEARED, UN HUMAN RIGHTS

 

WORKING GROUP EXPRESSES SERIOUS CONCERN

 

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GENEVA, 27 August (UN Information Service) -- On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is issuing today the following message:

Round-Up of Session                                  

SUBCOMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

CONCLUDES FIFTY-SIXTH SESSION

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VITIT MUNTARBHORN APPOINTED UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON SITUATION

OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

(Reissued as received.)

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UN EXPERTS APPEAL TO IRAN TO COMPLY WITH HUMAN

RIGHTS NORMS IN CASE OF DEAD JOURNALIST

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GENEVA, 27 July (UN Information Service) -- The following statement was issued today by the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, and the Special Rapporteur on torture of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights: