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Article: UN: Human rights violations continue, national institutions report.
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- April 23, 1999
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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 April 1999-UN: Human rights violations continue, national institutions report (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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GENEVA -- National institutions for human rights told the Commission on Human Rights this afternoon of efforts to improve matters in their home countries, but also said they faced such difficulties as scarce resources, limited influence, and challenges -- such as internal armed insurrections -- over which they had little control.
Although the international community employed a vast infrastructure of human rights treaties, programmes, and support services, the number of human rights violations was still high, several national ...