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Human rights

HR/CN/744

ISR"L DEFENDS ACTIONS IN LEBANON BEFORE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

23 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/744


ISRAEL DEFENDS ACTIONS IN LEBANON BEFORE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960423

GENEVA, 18 April (UN Information Service) -- Israel would halt its ongoing operations against Hezbollah when that group stopped lobbing Katyusha rockets into the north of the country, a representative of Israel told the Commission on Human Rights this afternoon.

HR/CN/745

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TAKES ACTION ON RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, RACISM, SEXUAL SLAVERY, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

22 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/745


HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TAKES ACTION ON RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE, RACISM, SEXUAL SLAVERY, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

19960422

GENEVA, 19 April (UN Information Service) -- The Commission on Human Rights this morning adopted resolutions in which it condemned the role played by certain media in inciting racial hatred, expressed grave concern at attacks upon religious shrines, and denounced the indiscriminate use of anti-personnel mines.

HR/CN/742

COUNTRY DELEGATIONS, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ALLEGE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THROUGHOUT WORLD, AT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DEBATE

18 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/742


COUNTRY DELEGATIONS, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ALLEGE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THROUGHOUT WORLD, AT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DEBATE

19960418

GENEVA, 17 April (UN Information Service) -- Over 40 non-governmental organizations took the floor at this afternoon's meeting of the Commission on Human Rights to denounce human rights violations around the world, while 13 country delegations defended their respective governments' records.

HR/CN/741

NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY NOT A SHIELD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, EUROPEAN UNION TELLS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

18 April 1996


Press Release
HR/CN/741


NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY NOT A SHIELD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, EUROPEAN UNION TELLS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19960418

GENEVA, 17 April (UN Information Service) -- Governments should be held accountable when human rights violations took place, and no screen of national sovereignty could prevent the international community from identifying abuses, the representative of the European Union told the Commission on Human Rights this morning.