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HURC-WCHR-SPK-* UN 183391 · Document · 1993.06.15
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The Conference focused on a wide range of human rights issues. With the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Conference called on Governments to promote and guarantee all human rights and made recommendations to strengthen the methods and mechanisms used by the United Nations in the field of human rights. The Conference was the first of its kind in 25 years and included 171 Member States and 1,000 non-governmental organizations.
Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, addresses the Conference.

HURC-EXP UN 105043 · Document · 1968.07.25
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The Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts set up by the Commission on Human Rights in 1967 to investigate the treatment of prisoners in Southen Africa arrived in Geneva from London today. The Working Group will hold a series of meetings to hear witnesses on the treatment of political prisoners in Angola and other Portuguese territories in Africa and on the trade union situation in Southern Rhodesia. The six-member Group is on a visit to Europe and Africa.
At the presiding table, from left to right: Mr. Edward Lawson, Principal Secretary; Mr. Brahimir Jankovic (Yugoslavia), Acting Chairman of the Group; and Miss Katharine Kaplun, Interpreter.

ATM-NUCL-GNL-ZAF UN 151922 · Document · 1982
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In white-ruled South Africa, black people are denied their basic human and political rights; their labour is exploited, their lives segregated, precarious and fearful. In 1982 almost one million of them were to be transferred to another country - Swaziland - without their having any say in the matter whatsoever. That is the tyranny of apartheid of racism made law, of a system under which a small white minority holds all economic and political power, and dictates in the minutest detail how and where the large black majority will live, work and die. It is this system of institutionalized racial discrimination which defies the principles of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that has set South Africa on a collision course with the rest of the world. It must be brought to an end before it erupts into a racial war between "whites" and "blacks" that would have tragic consequences for the whole world.

Nuclear reactor at the National Nuclear Research Centre, Pelindaba. South Africa's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - the world's main legal instrument for halting the spread of nuclear weapons - and place its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, have made the question of its capability and plans in the nuclear field a matter of concern to the world community. A UN study published in 1981, concluded that South Africa "has the technical capability to make nuclear weapons and the necessary means of delivery" and that the to make nuclear weapons and the necessary means of delivery" and that the acquisition of nuclear weapons by South Africa "would have to be treaded as a grave threat to the sucirity of the African States and to international peace".

Nuclear Explosions Control
ATM-NDIS-WRK UN 63887 · Document · 1959.11
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A meeting of the Technical Working Group of experts, set up to look into the possibility of improving the identification of suspected nuclear explosions, prepares to get under way at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This group was established on 24 November 1959 by the Conference on the discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons tests.

Shown here, starting from left to right at the Chairman's table: Dr. W.K.M. PANOFSKY, Dr. James B. FISK, Dr. Carl F. ROMNEY, of the United States; Y.V. RIZNECHENKO, I.P. PASECHNIK, A.M. SADOVSKY, E.K. FEDOROV, V.V. SHUSTOV, V. KEILIS-BOROK, of the USSR; Miss Constance RHODES, UN Conference Officer, T.G. NARAYANAN, representative of the Secretary-General; I. MADDOCK, Sir W. PENNEY, of the United Kingdom.

Nuclear Explosions Control
ATM-NDIS-WRK UN 63888 · Document · 1959.11
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A meeting of the Technical Working Group of experts, set up to look into the possibility of improving the identification of suspected nuclear explosions, prepares to get under way at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This group was established on 24 November 1959 by the Conference on the discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons tests.

Three of the experts are shown on their way to a session of their group. From left to right: E.K. FEDOROV, of the USSR, Sir W. PENNEY, of the United Kingdom, and Dr. James B. FISK, of the United States.

Nuclear Explosions Control
ATM-NDIS-WRK UN 63885 · Document · 1959.11
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United Kingdom delegates (from left to right) I. MADDOCK and Sir W. PENNEY at a meeting of the Technical Working Group of experts, set up to look into the possibility of improving the identification of suspected nuclear tests.This group was established on 24 November 1959 by the Conference on the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests.

Nuclear Explosions Control
ATM-NDIS-WRK UN 63886 · Document · 1959.11
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Two members of the Soviet delegation discuss a point while waiting for a meeting of the Technical Working Group of experts to get under way. This group, made up of representatives from the USSR, the United States and the United Kingdom was set up on 24 November 1959 by the Conference on the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests, to look into the possibility of improving the identification of suspected nuclear tests.

This members of the Soviet delegation, shown here from left to right are: Y.V. RIZNECHENKO, I.P. PASECHNIK, A.M. SADOVSKY, E.K. FEDOROV, V.V. SHUSTOV, V. KEILIS BOROK.

Nuclear Explosions Control
ATM-NDIS-WRK UN 63884 · Document · 1959.11
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The United States delegation takes the chair as a meeting of the Technical Working Group of experts, set up to look into the possibility of improving the identification of suspected nuclear explosions, prepares to get under way. This group was established on 24 November 1959 by the Conference on the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests.

The three members of the United States delegations shown here are, from left to right: Dr. W.K.M. PANOFSKY, Dr. James B. FISK, Dr. Carl F. ROMNEY.

ATM-NDIS-CON UN 73180 · Document · 1961.11.28
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The 341st meeting of the Conference on the discontinuance of nuclear weapon tests was held here today, under the chairmanship of the Chairman of the Delegation of the United Kingdom, Mr. Joseph GODBER (centre, at desk). The two members of his Delegation who are seated beside him are Sir Michael WRIGHT (l.) and Mr. D.N. BRINSON.