HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS PREPARATORY MEETING

FINAL PREPARATORY MEETING BEFORE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM

TO BE HELD IN GENEVA FROM 21 MAY TO 1 JUNE 2001

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GENEVA, 18 May (UN Information Service) -- The second and final session of the Preparatory Committee of the forthcoming World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance opens in Geneva on Monday, 21 May 2001.

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COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION

Considered Reports of Georgia, Greece, Bolivia, Slovakia,

Czech Republic, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Costa Rica

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COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD TO HOLD TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION AT GENEVA,

21 MAY TO 8 JUNE 2001

Experts to Examine Reports From Denmark, Turkey,

Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania, Bhutan, Monaco

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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

CONCLUDES TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION

Issues Concluding Observations on Situation in Venezuela, Honduras,

Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Bolivia, and Togo

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WORKING GROUP ON DISAPPEARANCES TO MEET IN NEW YORK FROM 30 APRIL TO 4 MAY

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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Appoints Special Rapporteur for Indigenous People; Ends Mandates

Of Special Representative on Rwanda, Special Rapporteur on the Former Yugoslavia

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COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION AT PALAIS WILSON

IN GENEVA FROM 30 APRIL TO 18 MAY 2001

Panel Scheduled to Consider Reports from Georgia, Greece,

Bolivia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Costa Rica

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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS TO HOLD

TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION, 23 APRIL - 11 MAY

Committee Will Consider Reports of Venezuela,

Honduras, China: Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and Bolivia

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Human Rights Committee

Seventy-first Session

1926^th Meeting (AM) and

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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SESSION, EXPRESSES VIEWS ON REPORTS

OF VENEZUELA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, UZBEKISTAN, CROATIA AND SYRIA