UN — ECOSOC — Commission on Human Rights — 37th Session — Summary Record of the 1633rd Meeting

          
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          UNITED NATIONS
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          r,—ONO”
          E/CL4/SR. 1632
          A N D 12 March 1981
          E Nc - T ISH
          SOCIAL COUNCIL
          CO LtSSION ON JMA1 RIGHTS
          Thirty—seventh session
          SUMMARY RECORD OF TI 1632ND TIN
          Held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva,
          on Monday, 9 March 1981, at 3 p.m.
          Chairman: Mr. CALERO RODRIGTJES (Brazil)
          CONT TS
          Q,uestion of the violation of human rights and fimdamental freedoms in ar y part of
          the world, with particular reference to colonial and other dependent countries
          rritories onti ea
          1. Viscount COLVILL of ULRO S (United ICingdoru) welcomed the inclusion of the
          item in the Commission's agenda, particularly since the past five years had seen some
          of the most flagrant and systematic violations of human rights since the establishment
          of the United Nations: mass killings of innocent people; abductions followed by
          disappearances; summary executions; official toleration or even encouragement of
          torture; arbitrary arrests; indefinite imprisonment without trial and internal
          exile; the displacement of hundreds of thousai ds of innocent people from their
          homes as a result of foreign invasion or for other political or military reasons;
          the deprivation of certain people of their right to self—determinatIon; and the
          persecution of people, by both religious and atheistic regimes, because of their
          colour, race or religious beliefs, one e cample being the persecution of the Baha'i
          community referred to at the preceding meeting.
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