Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

In progress at UNHQ

Press Release

SOC/NAR/798

TAJIK PRESIDENT OPENS CRIME COMMISSION, SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR NEW DRUG CONTROL AGENCY

27 April 1999


Press Release
SOC/NAR/798


TAJIK PRESIDENT OPENS CRIME COMMISSION, SIGNS AGREEMENT FOR NEW DRUG CONTROL AGENCY

19990427

VIENNA, 27 April (UN Information Service) -- Tajik President Emomali Rakhmanov signed an agreement today with the Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Pino Arlacchi, to set up a new drug control agency in Tajikistan, which should greatly boost its fight against illicit drugs.

DSG/SM/47

ELIMINATING POVERTY OBLIGATION RESPONSIBILITY SHARED BY ALL, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT LAUNCH OF ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE

27 April 1999


Press Release
DSG/SM/47


ELIMINATING POVERTY OBLIGATION RESPONSIBILITY SHARED BY ALL, SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT LAUNCH OF ANTI-POVERTY INITIATIVE

19990427 Following are the remarks of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/Cisco Systems Initiative on the Eradication of Poverty in New York on 27 April:

HR/CN/935

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

27 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CN/935


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

19990427

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 26 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this evening adopted a host of resolutions aimed at alleviating abuses and human suffering in all corners of the globe.

HR/CN/933

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS DEBATE ON RATIONALIZATION OF ITS WORK

27 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CN/933


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS BEGINS DEBATE ON RATIONALIZATION OF ITS WORK

19990427

GENEVA, 26 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this morning began its debate on the rationalization of its work. The discussion centred on the report of the bureau of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the rationalization of the work and mechanisms of reform.