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10 Aucust 1981
SOC AL COUNCIL Origina1
COT'JMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Thirty. -eighth session
Item 12 of the draft provisional agende '
Sub--Commission on Prevention of
Discrimination auG Protection
of Minorities
Thirty—f ou ih sossion
Item 6 of the provisional agenda
QUESTION OF TIE VIOLITION OF tiMidY RIGHTS AND PU 11 TAL
HUNEDOMS IN ANY PART CF THE WORE) NYTH PARTICULAR
PLEHERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT
COUNTRIES 10:1) TERRITORIES
N veea e iOis t193ifro mthaP e na nent
Mission of Canada to the LTnited . Nations_Office at
e3dcte ecretaGeneral
I?The Permanent Mission of Canad.a resents its compliments to the Secretary—General
of the United. Nations and. has the honour to refer to the text of a motion adopted.
unanimously on 9 June 1981 by the House of Commons of Canada regarding the treatment
of the Baha' ± community in Iran. The text cl the motion is attached..
The Permanent Mission would. be grateful ±i the Secretary General would.
circulate the text of the motion to the memhers oft he United. Nations Commission
on Human Rights as an official document of ilie Cocinission on human Rights in
sufficient time for the members of the Sub--Commission on Prevention of :oiscrimiratio
and Protection of Minorities to ho made aware oi the motion? s contents when they
meet for the 34th session of the Sub--Commission.
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Annex
Annex
TEXT OF A MOTION P D0P H.D PNAEMOUSLY ON 9 JO} 198 1.
BY TI HOUSE OF COI fl ONS OF Ci Ii
Motion proposed. by I . Bill Kempling, Member of Parliament (Burlington)
seconded. by Ms. Flora MacDonald., I e e:: of Parliament (Kingston and. -the islands).
un light of the brutal disregard. for human rights displayed. by the Iranian
Government against the Bahai faith in Iran and. in view of the announced. intention
of the Government of Iran to destroy all traces of the holiest Bahai shrine and.
to desecrate its site (the House of Commons) deplores the decision to d.esecrete
the sacred. shrine which three million Bahai around. the world. consider the
birthplace and. the s bol of their faith and., should. the Government of Iran continue
its persecution, (the House of Commons) urges that the United. Nations Commission
on Human Rights takes up once again its investigation of Iranian policy -toward.
the Bahai community in Iran.
