COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVES STATEMENTS ON HAITI, COLOMBIA;

RESOLUTIONS ON AFGHANISTAN, SOMALIA, CAMBODIA, SIERRA LEONE

Other Measures Adopted on Promotion and Protection

of Human Rights, Effective Functioning of Human Rights Mechanisms

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES FIFTY-NINTH SESSION; CREATES EXPERT POST

FOR LIBERIA; REQUESTS EXPERT FOR AFGHANISTAN

Also Calls for Establishment of Human Rights Office

In Haiti; Ends Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Situation in Sudan

(Reissued as received.)

UN, ASEAN FORGE PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DRUGS AND CRIME

(Reissued as received.)

Background Release

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TO MEET FROM 28 APRIL TO 9 MAY

Ongoing Reform of Information Department to Be Main Focus of Discussion

The twenty-fifth session of the Committee on Information, which makes recommendations to the General Assembly on the policy and activities of the Department of Public Information (DPI), will open on Monday, 28 April, against the backdrop of the Department’s ongoing reform of its activities.

UN, BRAZIL TO ADDRESS URBAN INSECURITY

(Reissued as received.)

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IRAQ SHOULD NOT DISTRACT

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS FROM OTHER VIOLATIONS

Commission Continues to Adopt Measures on Specific Groups

And Individuals, Civil and Political Rights, Indigenous Issues

(Reissued as received.)

HUMAN RIGHTS –- WHETHER CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL OR CULTURAL –- ARE

UNIVERSAL, MUST BE UPHELD IN EVERY COUNTRY, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS

Following is the statement, as delivered, by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva today:

IN MESSAGE FOR WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY, PRESIDENT

OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY CITES VALUE OF BOOKS, READING

Following is the message by Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the General Assembly, for World Book and Copyright Day, observed 23 April:

UNEP OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR PROTECTING PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT IN POST-WAR IRAQ

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 24 April (UNEP) -- A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on environmental conditions in Iraq offers a preliminary assessment of the main environmental threats facing the country, and recommends actions for immediate relief and long-term recovery.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Austria from Greece on Monday, 21 April 2003.