Human rights

9 June 1999

Press Release
HR/4418

SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT CONCLUDES HUMANITARIAN MISSION TO COLOMBIA

19990609 (Reissued as received from the Office of the Special Representative.)

7 June 1999

Press Release
HR/4417

COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTY-FIRST SESSION

19990607 Issues Final Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Honduras, Benin, Chad, and Nicaragua

(Reissued as received.)

4 June 1999

Press Release
HR/4416

SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT APPEALS FOR RELEASE OF HOSTAGES IN COLOMBIA

19990604 Says Political Kidnappings 'Totally Unacceptable'

Following is the text of a humanitarian appeal made by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu, in Bogota, Colombia, on 2 June:

1 June 1999

Press Release
HR/4415

26 May 1999

Press Release
HR/4414

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES SESSION

19990526

(Delayed in transmission.)

GENEVA, 14 May (UN Information Service) -- The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its spring session today by issuing its concluding observations on the situation in the five countries which it has considered over the past three weeks.

14 May 1999

Press Release
HR/4412

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES TWENTY-SECOND SESSION

19990514 Considered Reports of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mauritius, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Italy, Luxembourg, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Liechtenstein

(Reissued as received.)

14 May 1999

Press Release
HR/4413

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES TWENTIETH SESSION

19990514 Issues Observations on Solomon Islands, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland, Tunisia, and General Comments on Right to Education and Right to Adequate Food

To be issued on 17 May.

13 May 1999

Press Release
HR/4411*

UNITED NATIONS WORKING GROUP ON ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES MEETS IN NEW YORK

19990513

NEW YORK, 13 May -- The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is reviewing 634 cases of disappearances brought to its attention since its November session, during its fifty-seventh session in New York from 10 to 14 May.

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.)