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Article: Human Rights Commission appoints special rapporteur on mercenaries, considers religious freedom, acts for first time on human rights situation in Sri Lanka.
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- May 1, 1987
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Human Rights Commission appoints Special Rapporteur on mercenaries, considers religious freedom, acts for first time on human rights situation in Sri Lanka
The appointment of a new SpecialRapporteur to examine the question of the use of mercenaries as a means to violate human rights and to impede the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, and review of the first global report on the subject of religious freedom were among the actions taken at the forty-third session of the Commission on Human Rights (Geneva, 2 February-13 March).
The Commission, also for the firsttime, acted with regard to the question of human rights in Sri Lanka, calling ...