Addressing a panel of United Nations rights experts, Luis Duhalde, Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina, highlighted his country’s efforts to protect and promote such rights and provide justice for all its citizens, as he declared the determination of his Government to overcome the lingering effects of repressive laws promulgated during Argentina’s military dictatorship, which ruled from 1976 to 1983.

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the Panel on Violence against Women, in New York, today, 11 March:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Major General Luiz Guilherme Paul Cruz of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

Argentina had made steady strides in breaking with its legacy of military dictatorship, but the repression of those dark years continued to reverberate in ways that could forestall reform efforts, experts on the Human Rights Committee said today as they wrapped up consideration of that county’s fourth periodic report on compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today called on the international community to urgently join forces to end one of the most brutal and entrenched forms of gender discrimination ‑‑ violence against women, in an address to the Commission on the Status of Women’s fifty-fourth session.

From the very beginning of its independence just 18 years ago, Uzbekistan had sought to protect and promote the civil and political rights of all its citizens and had moved swiftly to adopt legislative, administrative and other measures to that end, such as abolishing the death penalty in 2008, the Director of the country’s National Human Rights Centre told the Human Rights Committee today.

On 10 March, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the three entries specified below from its Consolidated List. The assets freeze and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) therefore no longer apply to the following three entities:

The Security Council this morning decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad for two months, as discussions on its future continued with the Chadian Government.

On 11 March 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the two entries specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1904 (2009) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.