Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Human rights

HR/CN/736

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS MEASURES ON EASING EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES

12 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/736


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS MEASURES ON EASING EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES

19960412 Also Takes Action on Right to Development, Forced Evictions, Toxic Waste

GENEVA, 11 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this afternoon approved a resolution and a decision calling for the easing of the effects of economic structural adjustment programmes and foreign debt burdens on developing countries.

HR/CN/734

MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF HAITI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF CUBA ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

11 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/734


MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF HAITI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF CUBA ADDRESS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960411

GENEVA, 10 April (UN Information Service) -- The Minister of Justice and Public Security of Haiti, Pierre Max Antoine, told the Commission on Human Rights this morning that a National Commission of Truth and Justice was now investigating crimes committed during the period following the 1991 military coup d'état.

HR/CN/732

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS COMMISSION HUMAN RIGHTS MORE THAN EVER CENTRAL TO UN AGENDA

10 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/732


HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS COMMISSION HUMAN RIGHTS MORE THAN EVER CENTRAL TO UN AGENDA

19960410

GENEVA, 9 April (UN Information Service) -- Human rights were now, more than ever, a central issue of the United Nations agenda, the basic link that held together peace and development, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, José Ayala Lasso, said this morning before the Commission on Human Rights.

HR/CN/730

GOVERNMENT MINISTERS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA, TOGO INFORM COMMISSION OF EFFORTS TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS

9 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/730


GOVERNMENT MINISTERS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA, TOGO INFORM COMMISSION OF EFFORTS TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS

19960409

GENEVA, 4 April (UN Information Service) -- Senior officials from Papua New Guinea and Togo told the Commission on Human Rights this morning of measures taken by their Governments to further human rights promotion and protection in their countries.