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Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights opens its fifty-fifth session in Geneva
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Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 28 July 2003 Morning Elects Halima Embarek Warzazi as Chairperson, Adopts Agenda and Hears Statement by Acting High...
ECOSOC ADOPTS TEXTS ON ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, INDIGENOUS ISSUES
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25 July 2003 morning ECOSOC Suspends 2003 Substantive Session The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning suspended its 2003 substantive session after adopting five resolutions and 13...
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG ADDRESSES CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WORLD'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
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24 July 2003 Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today delivered the opening address at the annual celebration at the Palais des Nations of the...
ECOSOC ADOPTS TEXTS ON PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE, LEBANESE DETAINEES IN ISRAEL, AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR
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23.07.2003 morning Begins Consideration of Human Rights and Indigenous Issues The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning began its adoption of texts recommended to it by the Commission on...
ECOSOC ADOPTS DECISIONS RECOMMENDED BY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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23.07.03 afternoon Also Adopts Resolution on Long-term Support for Haiti The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this afternoon took action on decisions recommended to it in the report of the...
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORLD'S
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO BE CELEBRATED
AT THE PALAIS DES NATIONS ON 24 JULY
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22.07.2003 The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will be celebrated at the Palais des Nations on Thursday, 24 July 2003. The official date of observance chosen by the General...
GLOBALIZATION CAN REVITALIZE CULTURAL
IDENTITIES, DIRECTOR-GENERAL SAYS AT
OPENING OF EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
BY INDIGENOUS ARTISTS
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22.07.03 Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today opened an exhibition of paintings by Nahua indigenous artists from Guerrero, Mexico. The exhibition...
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS
THIRD PERIODIC REPORT FROM PORTUGAL
ON THE COUNTRY'S CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION
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21 July 2003 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one-day dialogue with a Government delegation from Portugal on how that country was giving effect to the provisions of the...