INDICTMENTS FOR ‘CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ FILED IN TIMOR-LESTE

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

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE PRESENTS REPORT

TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Debate Continues on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)

EXPERTS ON MIGRANTS, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, SLAVERY

PRESENT REPORTS TO COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Commission Continues General Debate on Human Rights of Women

(Reissued as received.)

Security Council

4738^th Meeting (AM)

FAILURE OF UN PLAN TO SOLVE CYPRUS PROBLEM ‘DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING’

SPECIAL ADVISER ALVARO DE SOTO TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Briefs Council on Secretary-General’s More Than Three-Year

Effort; Propitious Circumstances, Fair Plan, and ‘Unique Opportunity Missed’

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEEPLY DISTURBED BY KILLING

OF CIVILIANS AND JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ CONFLICT

(Reissued as received.)

OMBUDSMAN APPOINTED FOR UN IN VIENNA

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES WITH CONSIDERATION

OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

Hears Statement by Chairperson of Committee on Rights of Child

(Reissued as received.)

IRAQ FIGHTING FURTHER IMPERILS EXPECTANT MOTHERS, UNFPA WARNS

(Reissued as received.)

LIBERIA’S HUMANITARIAN NEEDS INCREASE, AS SECURITY SITUATION DETERIORATES

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS DISCUSSION OF WOMEN'S ISSUES

GENEVA, 9 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights opened debate this afternoon under its agenda item on "integration of the human rights of women and a gender perspective", hearing a series of countries describe national efforts to eradicate violence against women and improve the situation of women overall.