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1999 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor U.S. Department of State, February 25, 2000 |
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The following resolutions were adopted without a vote (by consensus) at the 55th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights: 1999/1. -- Situation of human rights in Sierra Leone 1999/4. -- Question of Western Sahara 1999/9. -- Situation of human rights in Afghanistan 1999/10 -- Situation of human rights in Burundi 1999/11 -- Situation of human rights in Nigeria 1999/15 -- Situation of human rights in Sudan 1999/16 -- Cooperation with representatives of United Nations human rights bodies 1999/17 -- Situation of human rights in Equatorial Guinea and assistance in the field of human rights 1999/20 -- Situation of human rights in Rwanda 1999/24 -- The right to food 1999/25 -- Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and study of special problems which the developing countries face in their efforts to achieve these human rights 1999/26 -- Human rights and extreme poverty 1999/28 -- Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 1999/29 -- Hostage-taking 1999/30 -- Question of a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1999/31 -- Independence and impartiality of the judiciary, jurors and assessors and the independence of lawyers 1999/32 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 1999/33 -- The right to restitution, compensation and rehabilitation for victims of grave violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms 1999/34 -- Impunity 1999/35 -- Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 1999/36 -- Right to freedom of expression and opinion 1999/37 -- Question of arbitrary detention 1999/38 -- Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances 1999/39 -- Implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief 1999/40 -- Traffic in Women and Girls 1999/41 -- Integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations system 1999/42 -- Elimination of violence against women 1999/44 -- Human rights of migrants 1999/45 -- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 1999/47 -- Internally displaced persons 1999/48 -- Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities 1999/49 -- The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficincy virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) 1999/50 -- Working group of the Commission on Human Rights to elaborate a draft declaration in accordance with paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994 1999/51 -- Working group on Indigenous Populations of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of discrimination and Protection of Minorities and the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People 1999/52 -- A permanent forum for indigenous people in the United Nations system 1999/53 -- Forum on economic, social and cultural rights: the Social Forum 1999/54 -- Strengthening of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 1999/66 -- Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1999/60 -- Development of public information activities in the field of human rights, including the World Public Information Campaign on Human Rights 1999/62 -- Towards a culture of peace 1999/63 -- Human rights and bioethics 1999/64 -- United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education 1999/65 -- Fundamental standards of humanity 1999/66 -- Implementation of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1999/68 -- Enhancement of international cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian and Pacific region 1999/69 -- Regional cooperation for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asia and Pacific region 1999/71 -- Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights 1999/72 -- National institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights 1999/74 -- Assistance to States in strengthening the rule of law 1999/75 -- Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights 1999/76 -- Situation of human rights in Cambodia 1999/77 -- Situation of human rights in Haiti 1999/78 -- Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 1999/80 -- Rights of the child 1999/81 -- Work of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities 1999/82 -- Defamation of religions The following resolutions were adopted by vote at the 55th session of the Commission on Human Rights (letter designation refers to the vote chart):
A. 1999/2 -- Situation of human rights in Kosovo
B. 1999/3 -- The use of mercenaries as means of violating
Human rights in and impeding the exercise of the right peoples to self-determination
C. 1999/5 -- Question of the violation of human rights
In the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine
D. 1999/6. -- Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan
E. 1999/7. -- Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab Territories
F. 1999/8 -- Human rights in Cuba
G. 1999/12 -- human rights situation in southern Lebanon and west Beeka
H. 1999/13 -- Human rights situation in Islamic Republic of Iran
I. 1999/14 -- Situation of human rights in Iraq
J. 1999/18 -- The situation of human rights in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(Serbia and Montenegro), The Republic of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzogovina
K. 1999/21 -- Human Rights and universal coercive measures
L. 1999/22 -- Effects on the full enjoyment of human rights of the economic
adjustment policies arising from Foreign debt and, in particular, the Implementation
of the Declaration on the Right To Development
M. 1999/23 -- Adverse effects of the illicit movement and Dumping of toxic and
dangerous products and Wastes on the enjoyment of human rights.
N. 1999/27 -- Human rights and terrorism
O. 1999/43 -- Abduction of children from northern Uganda
P. 1999/46 -- Contemporary forms of slavery
Q. 1999/55 -- Situation in occupied Palestine
R. 1999/57 -- Promotion of the right to democracy
S. 1999/58 Impunity of perpetrators of violations of Economic, social and
cultural rights
T. 1999/59 -- Globalization and its impact on the full Enjoyment of all human rights
U. 1999/61 -- Question of the death penalty
V. 1999/67 -- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
W. 1999/70 -- Composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
X. 1999/73 -- Mainstreaming technical cooperation in all areas of human rights
Vote Chart, 55th Session of the Commission on Human Rights
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