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58/ Although they cannot be expelled, the parents are nevertheless often
put under house arrest and prohibited from working.
59/ Ministerio Publico do Estado de São Paulo/UNICEF, Homicidios de
crianças e adolescentes. Uma contribução para administração da justiça criminal
em São Paulo, June 1995, p. 43.
60/ International Federation of Human Rights, Les assassinats d’enfants
des rues à Rio de Janeiro et à São Paulo, Mission d’enquête, décembre 1994,
p. 9. See also Centre for the Mobilization of Marginalized Populations, The
Killing of Children and Adolescents in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 1989.
61/
United States Department of State, op. cit.
62/ Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in
Burundi (E/CN.4/1995/66).
63/ Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights,
Mr. René Dégni-Segui, on the situation of human rights in Rwanda
(E/CN.4/1995/71, para. 15).
64/ Africans have long been accused of having spread the HIV virus
throughout the world. Similarly, the epidemic resulting from the Ebola virus
which raged in Zaire - and to which, as WHO announced on 24 August 1995, at
least 300 victims succumbed before it was contained - made part of the
population, which was swamped by the media with gloom-mongering, fear the
progressive contamination of those parts of the world which maintained air links
with that country.
65/ For instance, the voluntary use or otherwise of terms such as "rebel"
rather than "armed opposition". The excessive use of the term "fundamentalist"
applied exclusively to Muslims. Similarly, the profusion of details on the skin
colour of such and such a person in an article dealing with various events.
66/
CNCDH, op. cit., p. 25.
67/ Cited by the World Federalist Movement in a communication dated
14 March 1995 addressed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
68/ Regard sur l’actualité No. 208, Paris, February 1995, La documentation
française, p. 3.
69/ Extract from the communication dated 16 May 1995 from the Government
of Mexico.
70/ Extract from the communication dated 20 June 1995 from the Government
of Portugal.
71/ Information provided by the Government of Sweden in its communication
dated 16 January 1995.
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