Punishing women who underwent abortion was inappropriate, experts in the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women said this afternoon, as they commented on the initial and second periodic report of Luxembourg.
The President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Askar A. Akayev, will visit United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 10 July, to meet with Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail (Malaysia).
The Secretary-General arrived in Geneva from Hong Kong on Wednesday evening, 2 July. Upon his arrival he met with the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Vladimir Petrovsky. They discussed the impact of United Nations reform on Geneva, as well as matters before the Conference on Disarmament.
The passage of the Married Persons Equality Act was a major development in the area of legal capacity in Namibia, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was told this morning by that country's Director- General of Women's Affairs in the Office of the President.
