UN Report: Special Rapporteur on Torture, Addendum, E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 (excerpt)

Economic and Social Council
E/CN.4/1996/38
15 January 1996
ENGLISH ONLY
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-second session
Item 8 (c) of the provisional agenda
QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT QUESTION OF ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES
Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
II. INFORMATION CONCERNING ENFORCED OR INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES REVIEWED BY THE WORKING GROUP

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UN Report: Special Rapporteur on Torture, E/CN.4/1996/35 (excerpt)

Economic and Social Council
E/CN.4/1996/35
9 January 1996
Original: ENGLISH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-second session
Item 8(a)of the provisional agenda
QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT; IN PARTICULAR: TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHING
Report of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Nigel S. Rodley, submitted pursuant to Commisssion on Human Rights resolution 1995/37

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UN Report: Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, E/CN.4/1996/4 (excerpt)

Economic and Social Council
E/CN.4/1996/4
25 January 1996
Original: ENGLISH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-second session
Item 10 of the provisional agenda
QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Report by the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/73

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UN Concluding Observations of the UN Committee On Racial Discrimination 1996 (excerpt)

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION
Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
CHINA
1. The Committee examines the fifth, sixth and seventh periodic reports of the People«s Republic of China, which were submitted in a single document (CERD/C/275/Add.2), at its 1163rd and 1164th meetings held on 8 and 9 August 1996 (see CERD/C/SR.1163 and 1164). In the light of the examination of the report and the observations made by the members of the Committee, the Committtee, at its 1179th meeting, on 20 August 1996, adopted the following concluding observations.

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UN Report: Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance, Addendum, E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 (excerpt

Economic and Social Council
E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1
23 December 1994
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-first session
Item 22 of the provisional agenda
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION OF THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF INTOLERANCE AND OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RELIGION OR BELIEF
Report submitted Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/18

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