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Press Release

HR/CN/802

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLETES LONG DEBATE ON CHILD RIGHTS

15 April 1997


Press Release
HR/CN/802


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLETES LONG DEBATE ON CHILD RIGHTS

19970415

Conscientious Objection to Military Service, Follow-Up to Human Rights 1993 Conference, Human Rights Defenders Discussed

(Reissued as received.)

HR/CN/797*

COUNTRIES DECRY 'SELECTIVITY' IN DISCUSSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT COMMISSION

14 April 1997


Press Release
HR/CN/797*


COUNTRIES DECRY 'SELECTIVITY' IN DISCUSSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT COMMISSION

19970414

GENEVA, 10 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights continued its debate on human rights violations throughout the world this morning, with several members decrying what they called an impartial approach on the part of developed countries.

HR/CN/800

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON CAMBODIA, SOMALIA

14 April 1997


Press Release
HR/CN/800


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON CAMBODIA, SOMALIA

19970414 Measure Passed Condemning Terrorism; Others Texts Focus on Indigenous Peoples, Torture, Violence against Women

(Reissued as received.)

SG/SM/6204

SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED FOR CEASE-FIRE, SUSTAINED TALKS ON ZAIRE'S FUTURE

14 April 1997


Press Release
SG/SM/6204
AFR/2


SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES NEED FOR CEASE-FIRE, SUSTAINED TALKS ON ZAIRE'S FUTURE

19970414 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Kofi Annan:

While I am pleased that the parties to the conflict in Zaire have accepted the five-point peace plan endorsed by the Security Council, I am concerned that its implementation has not yet begun in earnest. There is no firm cease-fire.

HR/CN/798

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES CHILD RIGHTS

14 April 1997


Press Release
HR/CN/798


COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES CHILD RIGHTS

19970414

GENEVA, 10 April (UN Information Service) -- The sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography and related issues were discussed this evening by the Commission on Human Rights, with the group's Special Rapporteur on the topic telling the meeting that insensitive handling of victims of such abuses could cause far more anguish than already had been inflicted.