Press Release

5 April 1999

Press Release
POP/720

PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON 1994 CAIRO CONFERENCE APPROVES AGENDA, ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS

19990405 Cairo Conference Review to be Held 30 June to 2 July; Committee Will Meet Again to Consider Implementation of Action Plan

5 April 1999

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SG/SM/6946*

SECRETARY-GENERAL LEARNS WITH GRATITUDE AND RELIEF OF ARRIVAL IN NETHERLANDS THIS MORNING OF LIBYAN NATIONALS ACCUSED OF DESTROYING PLANE OVER LOCKERBIE

19990405 Kofi Annan Confident That Two Accused Will Receive Fair Trial; Considers It of Great Importance That Justice in Traumatic Case Should at Last Be Done

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

5 April 1999

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SG/SM/6947
AFR/139

5 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CT/536

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF COSTA RICA'S PERIODIC REPORT

19990405 Questions Focus on Issues of Child Prostitution, Religious Freedom, Right to Organize Unions

5 April 1999

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SG/SM/6944

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN AT HEADQUARTERS, 5 APRIL

19990405

1 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CT/534

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF LESOTHO REPORT ON COMPLIANCE WITH CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS COVENANT

19990401 Delegation of Lesotho Answers Questions Relating to Harassment of Journalists, Prosecution of Minors and Capital and Corporal Punishment

1 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CN/894

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HOLDS SPECIAL DEBATE ON KOSOVO

19990401 Commission Continues Discussion on Violations of Human Rights, Hears Reports on Situation in Former Yugoslavia, Iran and Nigeria

(Reissued as received.)

1 April 1999

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ENR/1*

1 April 1999

Press Release
WOM/1124

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN CONCLUDES FORTY-THIRD SESSION

19990401 Agreed Conclusions on Women and Health, Institutional Mechanisms, Resolutions on Women and Girls in Afghanistan, Women and Mental Health Adopted

1 April 1999

Press Release
HR/CT/533

MEASURES TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN LESOTHO INCLUDE HOLDING NEW GENERAL ELECTIONS WITHIN NEXT TWO YEARS, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD

19990401 Committee Takes up Report of Lesotho on Compliance With International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights