Press Release

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/851

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS EXPRESSES CONCERN AT GROWING RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA AGAINST MIGRANT WORKERS

19980409 Adopts Resolutions on Unilateral Coercive Measures, Illicit Dumping of Toxic Waste, Indigenous Populations, Structural Adjustment Policies

(Reissued as received.)

9 April 1998

Press Release
SC/6500

SECURITY COUNCIL ASKS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO REACTIVATE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON ARMS SALES TO FORMER RWANDAN GOVERNMENT FORCES

19980409 Resolution 1161 (1998), Adopted Unanimously, Recommends Commission Resume Work `As Soon as Possible'

9 April 1998

Press Release
DC/2601/

CUBA'S REPRESENTATIVE LINKS RATIFICATION OF TLATELOLCO TREATY TO IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH UNITED STATES CORRECTION

19980409

On page 5 of Press Release DC/2601 of 6 April, the third paragraph of the statement by Emilia Castro de Barish (Costa Rica) should read as follows:

9 April 1998

Press Release
ICJ/556

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE CALLS ON UNITED STATES TO TAKE MEASURES TO PREVENT EXECUTION OF ANGEL BREARD, PENDING FINAL DECISION

19980409 Paraguay to File Memorial by 9 June; United States Counter-Memorial by 9 September

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/516

9 April 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6519

TEAM INVESTIGATING DETENTION OF UN OFFICIAL IN KINSHASA TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES

19980409 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

A preliminary report has been received from the head of the investigative team of the incident involving the detention in Kinshasa by the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of Christopher Harland, a United Nations human rights officer.

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/847

GUATEMALA VICE-MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CITING PROGRESS, CALLS FOR END OF CONSIDERATION BY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SITUATION IN HIS COUNTRY

19980409 Commission Hears Reports on Situations in Haiti, Cambodia; Discusses Violence Against Women, Role of National Human Rights Institutions

(Reissued as received.)

9 April 1998

Press Release
POP/668

UNFPA MEETING NEXT WEEK REVIEWS PROGRESS ON ADOLESCENT PRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, SEX EDUCATION, AND REDUCING TEEN PREGNANCY

19980409 (Reissued as received.)

8 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/849

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES TO HEAR STATEMENTS ON ROLE OF NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS

19980408 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 6 April (UN Information Service) -- United Nations human rights experts spoke this evening to Commission on Human Rights on the situations in Guatemala and Somalia, the status of technical cooperation projects and the plight of internally displaced people.

8 April 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6518

SECRETARY-GENERAL ACCEPTS INVITATION TO PLAY COORDINATING ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATION OF JULY ELECTIONS IN CAMBODIA

19980408 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan: