Press Release


HR/CT/538
7 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CT/538


MEMBERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EXPRESS CONCERN AT CONSISTENT USE OF ONLY ONE OFFICIAL UNITED NATIONS LANGUAGE IN WORKING GROUP AND BUREAU MEETINGS

19990407 Committee Continues Consideration of Revised Draft General Comment on Article 3 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

SG/SM/6949
7 April 1999


Press Release
SG/SM/6949
HR/CN/898


SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR RENEWED COMMITMENT IN NEW CENTURY TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MAN, WOMAN, CHILD -- REGARDLESS OF ETHNIC, NATIONAL BELONGING

19990407 Kofi Annan Tells Human Rights Commission 'A United Nations That Will Not Stand Up for Human Rights is a United Nations That Cannot Stand Up for Itself'

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's address to the Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva today:

HR/CN/895/
6 April 1999


Press Release
HR/CN/895/


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES SPECIAL MEETING ON SITUATION IN KOSOVO CORRECTION

19990406

In Press Release HR/CN/895, reissued as received on 5 April, the seventh paragraph on page 2 should read:

Representatives of Rwanda, Malaysia, Cuba, Turkey, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Sudan, Iraq, Greece, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kuwait and Belarus spoke in exercise of the right of reply.