SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE TO VISIT ARGENTINA

10 April 2001







The Special Rapporteur on religious intolerance of the Commission on Human Rights, Abdelfattah Amor, will visit Argentina from 23 to 30 April 2001.

During the visit, which comes at the invitation of the Government, the Special Rapporteur will meet officials of relevant organs, representatives of religious, belief and indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations and individuals who may wish to testify in their personal capacity.

The visit to Argentina will take place within the framework of the Special Rapporteur’s mandate to promote and protect freedom of religion or belief in the light of the 1981 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination based on Religion or Belief.

Mr. Amor, who has been Special Rapporteur since 1993, is Emeritus Dean of the Faculty of Juridical, Political and Social Sciences at Tunis, President of the International Academy of Constitutional Law and Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.





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