UN Commission on Human Rights

54th Session - Geneva, 16 March - 24 April 1998

The participation of the Transnational Radical Party:

Written statements (already accepted by the UN):

Item 7. The right of peoples to self-determination and its application to peoples under colonial or alien domination or foreign occupation - East Timor

Item 18. Implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief - Tibet

Item 22. The question of conscientious objection to military service - Russia + former USSR

Oral statements (in the supposed time order):

20-23 March: Item 12. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance - Gypsies (Paolo Pietrosanti)

23-24 March: Item 13. Status of the International Covenants on Human Rights - moratorium, death penalty (Hands Off Cain)

24-25 March: Item 5. Question of the realization in all countries of the 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 - Nigeria, Papua N.G., West Papua (UNPO)

26-27 March: Item 23. Indigenous issues - general (UNPO)

27-31 March: Item 16. Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities - Albanians in Macedonia (Arben Xhaferi)

1-3 April: Item 8. Question of the human rights of all persons subjected to any form of detention or imprisonment - Cuba (TRP)

6 April: Item 9. Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of the programme and methods of work of the Commission - population transfers, Afghanistan, Ingushetia, Tunisia (TRP)

14-16 April: Item 10. 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 - Kosova (Afrim Djonbalic)

20 April: Item 20. Rights of the child - China, Asian and Arab countries (Beatrice Laroche)

Briefings and conferences:

23 March - 13,00 to 15,00 - Hands Off Cain

6 April - 13,00 - 15,00 - Wei Jingsheng

15 April - 13,00 - 15,00 - International Criminal Court

16 April - 13,00 - 16,00 - TRP on Conscientious Objection

- Conference on Cuba