ADDITIONAL FUNDING URGENTLY NEEDED FOR ZIMBABWE

HARARE/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 2 April (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The United Nations in Zimbabwe is urgently seeking additional funds to meet massive humanitarian needs, especially for health care, safe water, sanitation, education, and recovery at household and community levels.

PRESS STATEMENT ON CYPRUS BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT

Following is today’s press statement on Cyprus by Security Council President Gunter Pleuger (Germany):

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON FREEDOM OF RELIGION CALLS

FOR GREATER TOLERANCE, FEWER ALIBIS

NGOs Level Charges, Raise Issues in Discussion on Civil and Political Rights

(Reissued as received.)

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WORKSHOP AGREES on ACTION PLAN TO BOOST CAPITAL MARKETS IN North africa

(Reissued as received.)

UNRWA suspends emergency food aid in Gaza

(Reissued as received.)

COUNTRIES DESCRIBE EFFORTS TO ADVANCE CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

National Delegations Urge Strengthening of Judicial Independence,

Democracy, Freedom of Religion; Call for End to Torture, Extrajudicial Executions

(Reissued as received.)

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ADDS THREE A.K.A.’S AND CORRECTS ONE A.K.A.

OF ONE ENTITY IN AL-QAIDA SECTION OF ITS CONSOLIDATED LIST

The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 31 March 2004 approved the addition of three a.k.a.’s and the correction of one a.k.a. for one entity in the Al-Qaida section of its consolidated list (the additions have been underlined in the entry below whereas the deletions appears as strikethrough text).

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Switzerland on Saturday, 27 March.

UNODC Launches Local Media Campaign in over 40 Countries

to Assist Victims of Human Trafficking

(Reissued as received.)