Human Rights Committee

Eighty-third Session

2256^th & 2257^th Meetings (AM & PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF KENYA’S REPORT

ON COMPLIANCE WITH COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

Experts Press for Greater Resolve by Government Regarding Troubling

Reports of Prisoner Mistreatment, Violence against Women, Forced Evictions

Security Council

5142^nd Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL RE-ESTABLISHES GROUP MONITORING SOMALIA ARMS EMBARGO

FOR FURTHER SIX MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1587 (2005)

Report Says Recent Arms Shipments Strengthened Military Capacity

Of Elements Intending Violent Opposition to Transitional Government

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT WELCOMES BURUNDI’S

 

APPROVAL OF POST-TRANSITIONAL CONSTITUTION

 

The Security Council today welcomed the approval by the Burundian people of the post-transitional Constitution, through the referendum of 28 February whose final results have just been declared.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF UN VOLUNTARY FUND ON CONTEMPORARY

 

FORMS OF SLAVERY CONCLUDES TENTH SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 14 March (UN Information Service) -- The Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery concluded its tenth session on Friday, 11 March.

GOVERNMENTS CALL FOR RESPONSIBLE POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION

OF FISHERIES, PLEDGE TO COMBAT ILLEGAL FISHING

Joint Statements Issued at Close of High-Level Meeting at FAO

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS SIXTY-FIRST SESSION

 

High Commissioner for Human Rights Says Commission Is One

Embodiment of Collective Responsibility to Promote and Protect Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR BROAD MOBILIZATION OF RESOURCES

IN FIGHT AGAINST TB, IN MESSAGE ON WORLD DAY

 

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message on World TB Day, observed 24 March:

Committee on Charter

 and United Nations Role

247^th Meeting (AM)

Opening current session, charter committee discusses questions related to imposition

Security Council

5140^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS

 

TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL UNTIL 31 MARCH

 

The Security Council decided this afternoon to extend the deadline for nominations to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia until 31 March, thereby endorsing a suggestion by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

SECRETARY-GENERAL REITERATES DETERMINATION TO BUILD GLOBAL, INCLUSIVE INFORMATION

SOCIETY, IN MESSAGE TO CEREMONY LAUNCHING DIGITAL SOLIDARITY FUND IN GENEVA

Following is the text of the message by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the ceremony marking the launch of the Digital Solidarity Fund, in Geneva, today, delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva: