E/CN.4/1997/71 page 39 Notes 1.The Governments of the following States have replied: Germany, Cyprus, Cuba, Estonia, Israel, Morocco, Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine, and Kuwait; the following non-governmental organizations have provided information to the Special Rapporteur: Amnesty International, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations, International Federation of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Commission of Jurists and International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. 2.See E/CN.4/1994/66, paras. 32 to 45; A/49/677, paras. 18 to 50. 3.See, A/49/677 and A/50/476. 4.See report of the United Nations Seminar to assess the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (E/CN.4/1997/68/Add.1). 5.A/51/301, para. 21. 6.See also A/50/476, paras. 155 to 157. 7.Newsweek, 25 November 1996, pp. 48 to 50. 8.Amnesty International, United States of America. Police brutality and excessive force in the New York City Police Department, June 1996 (AI INDEX: AMR 51/36/96). 9.Amnesty International, USA: The Death Penalty in Georgia: Arbitrary and Unfair, June 1996, (AI INDEX: AMR 51/25/96). Racist, 10.Anti-Defamation League, The Web of Hate. Extremists Exploit the Internet, New York, 1996; Simon Wiesenthal Center, Hate Mayhem and Terrorism on the Internet, A Special Report prepared for the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, September 1996. 11.Note dated 31 July 1996 from the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations Office at Geneva. 12.Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, Rapport annuel, Brussels, 1995, p. 7. 13.Anti-Defamation League, The Web of Hate, op. cit., p. 40. 14.American-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee, 1995 Special Report on Anti-Arab Racism, Hate Crimes, Discrimination and Defamation of Arab Americans, Washington D.C., 1996. 15.Op. cit., p. 11. 16.Communication from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee dated 10 July 1996. 17.Communication dated 12 September 1996 from the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations at Geneva, containing a study by the University of Tel Aviv into anti-Semitism throughout the world in 1995. For further information, see also Tel Aviv University, The Anti-Defamation League, The World Jewish Congress, Anti-Semitism Worldwide