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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/191
6 March 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 112 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/50/635/Add.3)]
50/191.
Situation of human rights in Iraq
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights 1/ and the International Covenants on Human Rights, 2/
Reaffirming that all Member States have an obligation to promote and
protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and the duty to fulfil the
obligations they have undertaken under the various international instruments
in this field,
Mindful that Iraq is a party to the International Covenants on Human
Rights and to other international human rights instruments,
Recalling its resolution 49/203 of 23 December 1994, in which it
expressed its strong condemnation of the massive violations of human rights of
the gravest nature in Iraq,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolution 1991/74 of
6 March 1991, 3/ by which the Commission requested its Chairman to appoint a
special rapporteur to make a thorough study of the violations of human rights
by the Government of Iraq, based on all information the special rapporteur
might deem relevant, including information provided by intergovernmental and
1/
Resolution 217 A (III).
2/
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3/
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1991,
Supplement No. 2 (E/1991/22), chap. II, sect. A.
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