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SUB-COMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

CONCLUDES FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION

Adopts 43 Texts, Including on Responsibilities of Transnational

Corporations; Effects of Counter-Terrorism Measures; Right to Development

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up of Session

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SEVENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Adopts Final Conclusions, Recommendations

On Reports of Slovakia, Portugal, El Salvador, Israel

(Reissued as received.)

EXISTENCE, DIVERSITY, ACHIEVEMENTS OF WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

CELEBRATED AT HEADQUARTERS OBSERVANCE

At a Headquarters commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan celebrated the “existence, diversity and achievements of the world’s indigenous people”, and said the protection and promotion of their rights and cultures was of fundamental importance to all States and peoples.

ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SUBMITS EMERGENCY

REPORT ON LIBERIA TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

ACTING HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMBING

OF RUSSIAN MILITARY HOSPITAL

The following statement was issued today by the spokesman for the Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:

SUBCOMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

OPENS FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION IN GENEVA

Elects Halima Embarek Warzazi as Chairperson, Adopts

Agenda, Hears Statement by Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS ISRAEL'S SECOND PERIODIC REPORT

ON COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL COVENANT

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 25 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration, carried out over three meetings, of the second periodic report of Israel on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Background Release

SUBCOMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TO MEET IN GENEVA, 28 JULY TO 15 AUGUST

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights' principal subsidiary organ, will hold its fifty-fifth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 28 July to 15 August.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 23 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration, carried out over three meetings, of the third periodic report of El Salvador on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS THIRD PERIODIC REPORT FROM PORTUGAL

ON THE COUNTRY'S CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 21 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one-day dialogue with a government delegation from Portugal on how that country was giving effect to the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.