SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO HEALTH CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY

INTO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN FALLUJA

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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN

OVER HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN WESTERN SUDAN

Welcomes Secretary-General’s Sending of Team, Appoints Independent Expert for Sudan

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Round-Up of Session                                        

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES SIXTIETH SESSION

Appoints Special Rapporteurs on Situations in Belarus,

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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

THIRTY-SECOND SESSION FROM 26 APRIL TO 14 MAY 2004

COMMISSION ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON RACISM, HEARS PROPOSED

 

STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR OFFICE OF HIGH COMMISSIONER

Speakers Raise Issue of Assassination of New

Hamas Leader, Cuba Withdraws Draft Resolution on GuantanamoBay

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ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONDEMNS

TERRORIST BOMBINGS TODAY IN IRAQ, SAUDI ARABIA

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GENEVA, 21 April (OHCHR) –- The following statement was issued today by the acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan:

COMMISSION ADOPTS CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENTS ON AFGHANISTAN,

HAITI, NEPAL, TIMOR-LESTE AND COLOMBIA

Decides to Appoint Independent Experts

On Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Terrorism

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COMMISSION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON MYANMAR, DEATH PENALTY,

 

OTHER ISSUES ON PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Mandates of Three Special Rapporteurs Extended

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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON RIGHTS OF WOMEN

AND CHILDREN, SPECIFIC GROUPS, INDIGENOUS ISSUES

Requests Secretary-General to Establish Mechanism

To Address Complex Problem of Internal Displacement

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