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WOM/1158

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF INITIAL AND SECOND REPORTS OF JORDAN

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SG/SM/7282

SECRETARY-GENERAL WARMLY WELCOMES STEPS TAKEN BY TURKEY AND GREECE TO ESTABLISH NEW BASIS OF COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING

The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

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NGO/325

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP REPEATEDLY DEFERRED REQUESTS FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS

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NGO/323

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ONE ORGANIZATION FOR CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations this afternoon recommended that one organization be granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and that another be reclassified to a different status category, as it continued its two-week session.

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IHA/694

IASC STATEMENT ON FORCED RELOCATION (‘REGROUPEMENT’) IN BURUNDI

NEW YORK, 19 January (OCHA) -- The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) issued the following statement on humanitarian assistance to forcibly relocated communities in Burundi:

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WOM/1155

MUCH PROGRESS MADE ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN LUXEMBOURG SINCE ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN MINISTRY, ANTI-DISCRMINATION COMMITTEE TOLD

Committee Takes up Third Periodic Report of Luxembourg

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DEV/2227

EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 17-28 JANUARY

NEW YORK, 19 January (Department of Economic and Social Affairs) -- The twentieth session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names is taking place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 17 to 28 January with the participation of some 150 experts representing 22 linguistic/geographical divisions.

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SC/6787

SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES STRONG SUPPORT FOR PEACE EFFORTS IN BURUNDI, FOLLOWING BRIEFING BY ‘FACILITATOR’ OF PEACE PROCESS, NELSON MANDELA

Adopts Resolution 1286 (2000) Unanimously; Secretary-General Warns Council of ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’

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NGO/322

COMMITTEE ON NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS C0NTINUES CONSIDERATION OF REQUESTS FOR RECLASSIFICATION OF CONSULTATIVE STATUS

This morning the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, a 19-member standing body of the Economic and Social Council, continued considering requests by non-governmental organizations for reclassification of their consultative status with the Council.

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WOM/1156

NEED TO ENSHRINE PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY IN LUXEMBOURG CONSTITUTION STRESSED BY WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE EXPERTS

Committee Concludes Consideration of Third Periodic Report of Luxembourg on Compliance with Anti-Discrimination Convention