UNITED
NATIONS
E
Economic and Social
Council
Distr.
GENERAL
E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.1
23 January 1995
ENGLISH
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ENGLISH/FRENCH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-second session
Item 12 of the provisional agenda
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE THIRD DECADE
TO COMBAT RACISM AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Report by Mr. Maurice Glèlè-Ahanhanzo, Special Rapporteur
on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, on his mission to
Brazil, from 6 to 17 June 1995, submitted pursuant to
Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1993/20 and 1995/12
CONTENTS
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Page
Introduction
A.
Purpose of the mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 -
2
3
B.
Chronology of the mission
3 -
9
3
10 - 24
5
Historical, geographic, economic and social
overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 - 20
5
B.
Political overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21
8
C.
Human rights overview
22 - 24
8
I.
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OVERVIEW OF BRAZIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A.
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