HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES FIRST READING OF DRAFT

GENERAL COMMENT ON ARTICLE 2 OF COVENANT

(Reissued as received.)

COUNTRIES TRADE BARBS OVER ‘SELECTIVITY’ IN HUMAN RIGHTS,

DEBATE JUSTIFICATIONS OF WAR IN IRAQ

Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty

Presents Report to Commission on Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL CELEBRATES ‘DIVERSITY AND RICHNESS’ ABORIGINAL PEOPLE

GIVE TO HUMAN FAMILY, AT OTTAWA AWARDS CEREMONY

Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette at the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Ceremony in Ottawa on 28 March:

Disarmament Commission

2003 Substantive Session

254^th & 255^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WORLD ORDER BASED ON EFFECTIVE ARMS CONTROL, REJECTION OF UNILATERAL USE

OF FORCE CALLED FOR IN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION

Ad Hoc Committee on Assembly

Resolution 51/210

Seventh Session

28^th Meeting (PM)

COORDINATORS FOR NEGOTIATIONS ON TWO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

REPORT ON PROGRESS TO TERRORISM AD HOC COMMITTEE

AIR POLLUTION FROM BAGHDAD FIRES POSES RISKS FOR HUMAN HEALTH

AND ENVIRONMENT, SAYS UNEP

(Reissued as received.)

AMMAN/NAIROBI, 30 March (UNEP) -- Toxic smoke from burning oil wells in southern Iraq and from oil-filled trenches and bomb-ignited fires in Baghdad are the clearest evidence so far that the current conflict may further damage Iraq's already highly stressed environment, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

FROM FARM TO TABLE:  A GLOBAL APPROACH TO FOOD SAFETY

Linking Food Chain

(Reissued as received.)

ROME, 31 March (FAO) -- Food safety is a global issue which demands an integrated, global response.

But the answer to tackling the issue of food-borne hazards which know no geographical boundaries lies very close to home -- in the farms, fields, orchards and rivers, large or small -- where our food has its source.

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE WORSENS, SAY UN OFFICIALS

MINISTER OF STATE IN CHARGE OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF CAMEROON

ADDRESSES COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Commission Continues Consideration of Question of Violation

Of Human Rights in Occupied Arab Territories, Including Palestine

(Reissued as received.)

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL SHASHI THAROOR

COORDINATOR FOR MULTILINGUALISM