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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