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IOM Press Conference
03 May 2011
Press Conference Announcement
Situation in Côte d'Ivoire and IOM work there Speakers: Jacques Seurt, IOM Chief of Mission for Cote d'Ivoire David Coomber, IOM Senior Operations Officer
Title
IOM Press Conference
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Organizations
United Nations Office at Geneva
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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS OPENS FORTY-SIXTH SESSION
02 May 2011
Meeting Summaries
Committee Elects New Bureau and Adopts Agenda and Programme of Work
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning opened its forty-sixth session this morning at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Two new members of the Committee also took the solemn oath and the Committee elected a new bureau and adopted its agenda and programme of work.
In his address, Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties…
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COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HOLDS DISCUSSION WITH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
02 May 2011
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon held a discussion with non-governmental organizations on the implementation of the Covenant in four of the five countries under review during this session, namely Turkey, Republic of Moldova, Germany and the Russian Federation.
During the discussion with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), representatives from NGOs in Turkey noted that dams were being built without the prior consultation of affected communities, villages were being destroyed and cultural ways of life…
