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Appearance v. Reality: The Treatment of Israel in the UN Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Morris B. Abram
Morris B. Abram*
Affiliation:
UN Watch, Geneva
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Human Rights: Implementation through the UN System
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 89 , 1995 , pp. 231 - 235
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1995

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References

1 Dinstein, Yoram, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and the United Nations , 18 Israel Y. B. Hum. Rts. 15 (1987) (quoting Irwin Coder)Google Scholar.

2 For a more detailed discussion and analysis, see Anne F. Bayefsky, Selective Enforcement: Is the United Nations Biased?, paper delivered at the International Law Weekend, sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association, October 29, 1994, New York.

3 1994-1995 UN Biennium Budget.

4 Commission on Human Rights, Note by the Secretary-General, Provisional Agenda of the Fifty-First Session, UN Doc. E/CN.5/1995/1 (1995).

5 Monitoring and assisting the transition to democracy in South Africa, CHR Res. 1995/19 (adopted without vote on 17 February 1995).

6 Question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine, CHR Res. 1995/1; Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, CHR Res. 1995/2; Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories, CHR Res. 1995/3; Situation in occupied Palestine, CHR Res. 1995/4; Human rights situation in Southern Lebanon and Western Bekaa, CHR Res. 1995/67.

7 See, e.g., Question of the Violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territories, Including Palestine, Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. E/CN.4/1995/22 (1994).

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid.

10 CHR Res. L. 1485, Agenda item 9.

11 Felber, Rene, Report on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 , Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-First Session, Agenda item 4, UN Doc. E/CN.4/1995/19, p. 14 (1995)Google Scholar.

12 UN Charter, f 1(1).

13 Res. 9(11) of 21 June 1946.

14 United Nations Action in the Field of Human Rights 23, para. 225 (Geneva, Centre for Human Rights, 1994) (emphasis added).

15 Situation in the Middle East, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994 13. 25 August 1994.

16 This attempt represented a virtually unprecedented move to deal with a human rights issue by invoking the International Court of Justice to legalize what was essentially a political issue. The move had such disturbing implications that both Israel and Syria actively opposed the adoption of the enabling resolution by the Commission and ECOSOC.