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ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

HR/4246

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

24 November 1995


Press Release
HR/4246


ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

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GENEVA, 24 November (UN Information Service) -- Any issue involving children was highly humanitarian and needed to be promoted in order to achieve the goals set forth by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was told this morning.

FIRST UN FOOD AID TO ARRIVE IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

WFP/1019

FIRST UN FOOD AID TO ARRIVE IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

24 November 1995


Press Release
WFP/1019


FIRST UN FOOD AID TO ARRIVE IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

19951124 ROME, 23 November (WFP) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) will deliver an emergency shipment of rice to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 24 November for distribution to 500,000 hungry people left destitute by recent floods.

The initial shipment of 5,140 tons of rice represents the first United Nations food aid ever sent to the country.

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