SECRETARY-GENERAL HIGHLIGHTS FOCUS ON THE UNDERREPORTING OF IMPORTANT NEWS

AS HE ADDRESSES COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION

Calls Occasion Opportunity to Reaffirm Commitment to Independence of Media

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT REPORTS

 

OF ABUSE OF IRAQI PRISONERS BY COALITION FORCES

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 3 May (UN Information Service) –- The Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Theo van Boven, issued the following statement today:

Secretary-General urges united local government body to address

needs of slum dwellers, challenge of good urban governance

The following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the Founding Congress of United Cities and Local Governments, delivered in Paris, on 2 May by Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme:

if evil must be named, it is ‘intolerance, exclusion’,

Secretary-General tells trinity institute conference

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message to the thirty-fifth National Conference of the Trinity Institute, in New York, 2 May:

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SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO HEALTH CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY

INTO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN FALLUJA

(Reissued as received.)

ACTING HUMAN RIGHTS chief:  PRESS FREEDOM DAY AN OCCASION

TO ENSURE VOICES CONTINUE TO BE HEARD

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 3 May (OHCHR) –- Following is the statement of Bertrand Ramcharan, the acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day:

PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN

OF MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE IN MAY

In accordance with the principle of alphabetical rotation, the following are the President of the United Nations Security Council and the Chairman of the Military Staff Committee for May:

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Secretary-General ‘deeply disturbed’ by media pictures

of iraqi prisoners being mistreated

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

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