Country Specific Resolutions 1 : Who has been targeted since 1967? 2

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1 A NEW CHAPTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS A handbook on issues of transition from the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights Council Annex 6.2 AFRICA Country Specific s 1 : Who has been targeted since 1967? 2 Afghanistan Yes Yes Two resolutions annually Yes Angola 1994 Yes Burundi Yes Central Africa Republic 1981 Yes Chad Yes 2003 Yes 1503 decision made public 1999 Yes Democratic Republic of the Congo Yes 1998 No 1998 Yes Zaire Yes Comment 1 Prepared by Nick Calacouras, Intern, International Service for Human Rights. 2 Data from is based on the information on countries collated by M. Lempinen, The United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the Different Treatment of Governments, (Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, 2005), Annex 9, pp Data for 2005 is based on ISHR's All-in-one Guide to Voting in 2005.

2 Proposed Adopted Equatorial Guinea Yes Ethiopia 1986 No Liberia Yes 2003 Yes 1503 decision made public Malawi 1984 Yes Appeal on the death sentence on Orton Chirwa and his wife Mauitania 1985 Yes Slavery and slavery-like practices Namibia Yes 1982 Yes 1979 Yes 1978 Yes Nigeria Yes 1995 No Rwanda Yes Sierra Leone Yes Somalia Yes South Africa Yes 1989 Yes South Africa/Namibia

3 1988 Yes South Africa/Namibia 1986 Yes Appeal to release Nelson Mandela and Zephania Mothopeng Yes Occupation of Namibia Yes Yes 1969 Yes Three resolutions annually 1968 Yes Four resolutions annually 1967 Yes Three resolutions annually The Sudan No 2005 Yes Yes Togo Yes Uganda Yes Yes 1977 No Western Sahara 2005 No Yes 1980 No Tindof 1980 Yes 1979 No Tindouf Zimbabwe 2004 Yes 2003 No 2002 No 1980 Yes 1979 Yes 1978 Yes Southern Rhodesia 1975 Yes 1970 Yes Abduction of children in Northern Uganda Congratulations for independence Detention of Rev Ndabaningi Sithole in Southern Rhodesia

4 ASIA Cambodia Yes Cambodia (Kampuchea) Yes 1979 No 1978 Yes ( : Occupying troops) China 2004 No No No (1992: Tibet) 1990 No Cyprus Yes 1993 No Yes 1988 No 1987 Yes 1985 Yes No 1978 Yes 1977 No 1976 Yes 1975 Yes Democratic People s Republic of Korea Yes East Timor 1999 Yes 1997 Yes 1993 Yes 1983 Yes Iran 2002 No Yes 1991 No Yes Comment

5 Proposed Adopted Iraq Yes 1990 No 1989 No Jammu and Kashmir 1994 No Jordan 1981 No Kuwait (Occupied) Yes Lebanon Yes S.Lebanon/W.Bekaa Yes Southern Lebanon 1987 Yes Refugee camps Yes Southern Lebanon Myanmar Yes Burma 1989 Yes Nepal 2005 Yes Papua New Guinea Yes 1993 Yes Two resolutions annually Sri Lanka 1987 Yes Syrian Arab Republic 1981 No Turkmenistan Yes

6 EASTERN EUROPE Albania Yes Belarus Yes Georgia Yes Latvia 1998 Yes Poland 1985 No Yes Romania Yes Russian Federation No Chechnya Yes Chechnya USSR No Andrei Sakharov South-Eastern Europe Yes Former Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (former) Yes 1995 No Yes 1996 No Missing persons Yes Missing persons Yes Rape Yugoslavia (Fed. Rep) 1999 No Kosovo 1999 Yes 1994 Yes Bosnia & Herzegovina 1994 Yes LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

7 Argentina 1979 No Bolivia Yes Chile Yes 1986 No Yes Cuba Yes 1998 No Yes 1989 No 1988 No 1987 No El Salvador Yes 1985 No Yes Grenada 1984 Yes Guatemala Yes 1990 Yes Two resolutions Yes Haiti Yes Nicaragua 1979 Yes Panama 1990 Yes

8 Paraguay 2004 Yes Confidential material made public 1990 Yes WESTERN EUROPE & OTHER Israel 1989, 1990, 2002, Occupied Palestinian 2005 Yes Territories Yes Occupied Syrian Gola No Lebanese Detainees Yes Lebanese Detainees Yes Israeli Settlements Yes Occupied Arab Territories Occupied Arab Territories (two annually in Yes Yes 2000 Yes 1982 Yes 1979 Yes 1977 Yes 1973 Yes 1984) Self Determination for Palestine Portugal 1973 Yes Act of aggression against Iraqi nuclear installation Torture of Palestinian detainees Death of Arab detainees in Israel Shooting down Lybian airline United Kingdom 1980 No Northern Ireland United States of America No Guantanamo 1995 No Racism 1990 No No 1981 No Military action in Panama and aid to Nicaragua

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