Playing the "communal Card": Communal Violence and Human RightsA report from the Human Rights Watch group investigating the manner in which contemporary causes of conflict fuel violence among ethnic, religious, and racial groups in areas such as Azerbaijan, the Israeli- occupied territories, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and the former Yugoslavia. The contributors argue t |
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Page 68 - All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Page 100 - A Plan to Intensify the Development of African Agriculture in Kenya, compiled by RJM Swynnerton, assistant director of agriculture (Nairobi: Government Printer, 1954), p.
Page 35 - March 1978, and the principle of land for peace as well as the compliance with the agreements reached between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, "Reaffirming the principle of the permanent sovereignty of peoples under foreign occupation over their natural resources...
Page 72 - States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law...
Page 32 - The authority of the legitimate Power having in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.
Page 30 - The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Page 28 - ... which questions, disrupts or is intended to disrupt, whether directly or indirectly, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India; or (ii) which is intended to bring about or supports any claim, whether directly or indirectly, for the cession of any part of India or the secession of any part of India from the Union.
Page 33 - After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, the League of Nations entrusted Britain with a mandate over Palestine.
Page 33 - ... which was in the British occupation zone of Germany. Many of the Jewish survivors of nazi terror would sooner have touched their feet upon the rim of hell than upon German soil. This callous act cost the British government any sympathy that it might have received from UNSCOP. The UNSCOP proposal was for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. It allotted less territory to the Jews than had a plan submitted by the Jewish Agency in 1946, but it was more generous to them than...