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THIRD SESSION OF PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES

TO MEET AT UN HEADQUARTERS, 10-21 MAY

Theme of Session:  ‘Indigenous Women’

ACTING HUMAN RIGHTS chief:  PRESS FREEDOM DAY AN OCCASION

TO ENSURE VOICES CONTINUE TO BE HEARD

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GENEVA, 3 May (OHCHR) –- Following is the statement of Bertrand Ramcharan, the acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day:

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO HEALTH CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY

INTO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN FALLUJA

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COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE OPENS THIRTY-SECOND SESSION

Hears Address by Acting High Commissioner

For Human Rights; Elects Chairperson and Officers

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GENEVA, 3 May (UN Information Service) –- The Committee against Torture today opened its thirty-second session by hearing an address by the United Nations acting High Commissioner for Human Rights and electing its Chairperson and officers for a two-year term. 

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT REPORTS

 

OF ABUSE OF IRAQI PRISONERS BY COALITION FORCES

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GENEVA, 3 May (UN Information Service) –- The Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Theo van Boven, issued the following statement today:

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Round-Up of Session                                        

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES SIXTIETH SESSION

Appoints Special Rapporteurs on Situations in Belarus,

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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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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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

THIRTY-SECOND SESSION FROM 26 APRIL TO 14 MAY 2004