LOURDES QUINTANILLA RODRÍGUEZ

Lourdes prepares for pilgrims in shadow of attacks

Ms. Lourdes M. Perez, National Directorate of Services for External Trade, Panama

Educated at Lourdes Primary School and Immaculata High School, Alexandra Township, Johannesburg

People gather during the annual Catholic pilgrimage at the sanctuary of Notre Dame de Lourdes.

Ms. Lourdes Bandera Researcher, Nucleus for Research on Women (NEPEM), University of Brasilia Rio de Janeiro

Bolivia Enrique Meyer Medina, Gerónimo Meleán, Saúl Lara, Raúl Barrios, Mary Carrasco, María Lourdes Espinoza Patiño, Franz Barrios

Catherine Simcox, who made a pilgrimage from the north east of England to Lourdes earlier this month described the heightened security.

Lourdes attracts around six million people a year, making it one of the biggest sites of Catholic pilgrimage in the world.

Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath, Gender and Poverty An Analysis for Action, UNDP Gender in Development Monograph Series No. 2 (New York, 1996).

The Vice Chairman of the Special Committee, Ms. Maria Lourdes Ramiro López (Philippines) introduced the report on be half of the Chairman, Mr. Dusan Rovensky (Czech Republic).

This total freaked my three kids out who are used to Lourdes it was hard to not scare them when they asked why it was happening, she said.

Other measures taken including shutting down the airspace above Lourdes to flights, closing off the streets around the sanctuary to traffic and replacing rubbish bins with transparent plastic bags.

French security forces are on high alert as thousands of Catholics converge on the shrine of Lourdes for an annual pilgrimage unfolding in the shadow of a string of terror attacks.

The route of Friday's opening procession has also been curtailed instead of starting in the town of Lourdes and proceeding to the sanctuary, it will start and end at the shrine.

(ii) Lourdes Feiguerez, investigator for the Binational Human Rights Centre, and Victor Clark, head of the Centre, who had received telephoned death threats at the organization apos s office in Tijuana, Baja California.

326. By a communication of 20 February 1996, the Government informed the Special Rapporteur with regard to the urgent appeal on behalf of Lourdes Feiguerez and Victor Clark that the latter had stated that he had not lodged any criminal complaint.

18. The Government contends that is had not been informed of the pressure and threats to which the lawyer Lourdes Castro Mendoza alleges she was subjected, forcing her to abandon Bermúdez apos s defence and leave the country, and that there are therefore no effective grounds for the complaint that he was denied counsel of his own choosing.