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A/58/448 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 117 (c) Human rights questions: human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives Note by the Secretary-General* The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the interim report on the human…

Humanitarian Activities 1. WFP distributes seeds protection rations WFP in Burundi continues to distribute the seeds protection rations (SPR) in the country. Some 1,267 Mt of food were supplied to nearly 118,600 farmers in Kayanza, Makamba, Ruyigi and Bubanza provinces without constraints.…

AI Index: AFR 47/016/2003 (Public) News Service No: 240 Speaking from Kigali, Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International urged President Kagame to use Rwanda's influence to end human rights abuses committed by armed groups in eastern DRC. At the end of…

Guests: Mr. Abou Moussa, Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, UNDP, Dr. Omar Khatib, Country Representative, WHO, Mr. Taal Housainou Deputy Country Representative, WFP, Mr. Moses Okello, Country Representative, UNHCR, Elizabeth Odour-Noah, Deputy Resident Representative, Mr. Samuel Momanyi, Programme Coordinator, UNICEF, Mr.…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #2, FY 2004, dated October 8, 2003. Background Liberia has been marked…

AI Index: AFR 47/014/2003 (Public) Amnesty International is concerned first and foremost with the issue of impunity. Amnesty International welcomes measures designed to bring to justice those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1990 to 1994…

Failing to bring to justice the hundreds of Rwandan genocide leaders who remained at large would be a failure not only of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), but of the United Nations in general, Gerald Gahima, Prosecutor-General…

UNMIL/PIO/PR/4 (Monrovia, Liberia) - UNMIL Force Commander Lieutenant-General Daniel I. Opande has expressed gratitude to the Government of Liberia and to the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) for their cooperation in making Monrovia, Bushrod Island and Paynesville a weapons…

(Near Verbatim) KEMAL SAIKI, Chief, Public Information Section PATRICK COKER, Spokesman Maj. ALIYU YUSUF, Military Spokesman Mr. Saiki: I would like to make a small announcement, today is probably the last time before long that our spokesman, Patrick Coker, will address you. He…

The signing on 8 October 2003 of an agreement on implementation of the December 2002 cease-fire agreement between the Government of Burundi and the CNDD-FDD (Nkurunziza) leaves significant challenges unresolved. It comes as Burundi approaches the 10th anniversary of the assassination…