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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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

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON MYANMAR, DEATH PENALTY,

 

OTHER ISSUES ON PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Mandates of Three Special Rapporteurs Extended

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ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONDEMNS

TERRORIST BOMBINGS TODAY IN IRAQ, SAUDI ARABIA

(Reissued as received.)

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

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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SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS EXPRESSES

CONCERN AT ASSASSINATION OF ABDEL AZIZ AL-RANTISI

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 20 April (UN Information Service) –- The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Asma Jahangir, issued the following statement today:

COMMISSION CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON ADVISORY SERVICES

AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Experts on Liberia, Somalia, Cambodia, Haiti Present Reports;

General Debate on Rationalization of Work of Commission Concludes

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COMMISSION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL,

CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Approves Appointment of Special Rapporteur

On Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children

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COMMISSION CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Issues Concerning Capital Punishment, Anti-Terrorist Laws,

Human Rights Defenders, and Human Rights and Sexual Orientation Raised

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION APPROVES SIX MEASURES ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Debate Continues on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)