Geneva, March 10th/April 18th, 1997. Speeches delivered by the Transnational Radical Party at the 53rd meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

- The right to economic, social, and cultural development

(5th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: Economic, social, and cultural rights of indigenous populations

(Bougainville, Ogoni, Western Papua); presented by Veronique de Weichs de Wenne.

- The right to auto-determination

(7th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: general (Tibet, Eastern Turkistan, Inner Mongolia, Ogoni, Bougainville, Western Papua...); presented by Michael C. van Walt van Praag (Secretary General of UNPO).

- Prisoner' s Rights

(8th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: Chinese political prisoners (Wei Jingsheng); presented by Wei Shanshan (sister of Wei Jingsheng).

- Assistance services, increased promotion and protection of human rights

(9th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: discrimination against persons who are HIV+; presented by

Olga Cechurova (TRP).

- Status of the international instruments for Human Rights and the effective functioning of treaties

(14th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: Capital punishment; presented by William Shabas (President "Hands of Cain," Professor at the University of Montreal).

- Situation in certain nations

(10th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: Hong Kong; presented by Marino Busdachin (President of the TRP delegation).

- The rights of Minorities

(17th point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: Eastern Turkistan; presented by Erkin Alptekin (President of the Allied Committee for Eastern Turkistan, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia).

-The rights of children

(21st point of the Order of the Day)

Subject: violation of children's rights (Burma, China); presented by

Beatrice Laroche (Human Rights in China, TRP).

(Published by TRANSNATIONAL #12, May 27th, 1997

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