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89/
Communication dated 17 May 1995 from the Government of China.
90/
Communication from the Mexican Government, op. cit.
91/
United States Department of State, op. cit.
92/
Communication from the Government of Sweden, op. cit.
93/
Contained in the 29 July 1881 Act on the Freedom of the Press.
94/
ESMV, List of Events No. 2, op. cit.
95/
CNCDH, op. cit., annex 5, "The different legislative approaches in
Europe", p. 416.
Communication dated 20 June 1995 from the Government of Portugal.
96/
These provisions are contained, in particular, in arts. 32, para. 2 (d), 159,
239, 240, 251, 254, 297, 298, 299, 300 and 301.
97/
Ibid.
98/
Thus, a court in Hamburg acquitted two neo-Nazis who had used a
telephone message service designed to provide information on the activities of
their group and describing the Auschwitz extermination camp as a myth. The two
men were liable under German legislation to a penalty of up to five years’
imprisonment.
99/
As the Government of Sweden notes in its communication cited above,
there could not be full statistics on the nature and scope of racial
discrimination in Sweden, in part because of the difficulties of proving such
discrimination.
100/ Mention may be made for example of the activities in France of the
non-governmental organization La Cimade (Service ecuménique d’entre-aide), which
receives and advises asylum-seekers and foreigners in precarious situations and
conducts information and awareness campaigns such as "Accuellir l’étranger" and
"L’avenir de l’Afrique se dessine autrement", designed to eliminate certain
prejudices and stereotypes that create racism, or, in the case of Africa,
fatalism.
101/ The Mosaïques association, in the Paris region, directed its
activities towards employers (those capable of integrating) in order to combat
the many forms of discrimination to which immigrant workers are subjected. It
had to discontinue its activities for lack of financing.
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