Human rights

12 May 1999

Press Release
HR/4410

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD TO HOLD TWENTY-FIRST SESSION AT GENEVA FROM 17 MAY TO 4 JUNE

19990512 Background Release Experts to Examine Reports of Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Honduras, Benin, Chad, Nicaragua

(Reissued as received.)

30 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/941

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS URGES PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT IN KOSOVO

19990430 Commission on Human Rights Adopts Resolution on Defamation of Religions, Concludes Fifty-Fifth Session

(Reissued as received.)

30 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/942

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION

19990430 Appoints Special Representative on Equatorial Guinea, Special Rapporteur On Migrants' Rights, Calls for Joint Mission to Democratic Republic of Congo

(Reissued as received.)

29 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/940

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ESTABLISHES INTER-SESSIONAL WORKING GROUP TO REVIEW AND ENHANCE ITS MECHANISMS

19990429 Debates Draft Resolution and Amendments on Defamation Of Islam/Religions, Postpones Action on Drafts to Friday in Hope for Consensus

(Reissued as received.)

29 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/939

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON SITUATIONS IN SOMALIA, CAMBODIA AND HAITI

19990429

(Reissued as received.)

28 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/938

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON EFFECTS OF IMPUNITY, GLOBALIZATION AND DEATH PENALTY ON HUMAN RIGHTS

19990428 (Reissued as received.)

28 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/937

27 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/935

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

19990427

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 26 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this evening adopted a host of resolutions aimed at alleviating abuses and human suffering in all corners of the globe.

27 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/933

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS DEBATE ON RATIONALIZATION OF ITS WORK

19990427

GENEVA, 26 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this morning began its debate on the rationalization of its work. The discussion centred on the report of the bureau of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the rationalization of the work and mechanisms of reform.

27 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/936

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES CHAIRPERSON'S STATEMENT ON COLOMBIA

19990427 Adopts Texts on Occupied Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Slavery, Rights of Migrants, Minorities, Indigenous People, Among Others

(Reissued as received.)