Resolution on human rights in the world in 2000

101.Urges all States to ratify without reservation and implement the abovementioned Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), including its additional Protocol, and to refrain from expressing reservations concerning the convention; urges States such as Saudi Arabia to halt discrimination after ratification; condemns in particular the practice of "honour killings" in Jordan and Pakistan; urges all governments to formulate legislation against all forms of domestic violence and to refrain from invoking religious or cultural considerations to avoid obligations in this respect;

102.Denounces the existence of obscurantist regimes which, particularly in Afghanistan, defend archaic forms of mental and physical violence and disregard the most basic human rights, particuarly those of women;

103.Denounces in particular the introduction of a yellow badge to be worn by non-Muslim citizens of Afghanistan and asks for the immediate withdrawal of this order;

104.Calls upon the Presidency to play an active role in the upcoming UN-mediated peace talks with the Taliban and the other parties to the conflict in Afghanistan; underlines the need to build up international pressure against the regime and the countries supporting it, in particular Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, by blocking all weapon deliveries and establishing trade embargoes; calls upon the Commission to take all necessary steps to help improve the situation of the Afghan refugees in Pakistan;

113.Reiterates its call upon all States to end repression and discrimination against peaceful religious and philosophical minorities; urges, in particular, China to end the repression of the Falun Gong as well as its Islamic, Christian and Buddhist population, Russia, Georgia, Syria and many other States to lift their ban on Jehovah´s Witnesses, Ukraine to stop discrimination of Greek-Catholics, Armenia to counter hostility against Muslims and Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to end discrimination against Christians;