UNITED
NATIONS

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Economic and Social Council Distr.

GENERAL


E/CN.4/1996/53/Add.1/Corr.1

7 February 1996

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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-second session
Item 9 (a) of the provisional agenda

FURTHER PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING THE QUESTION OF THE PROGRAMME AND METHODS OF WORK OF THE COMMISSION ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES AND WAYS AND MEANS WITHIN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVE ENJOYMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/45
Addendum
Report on the mission to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea and Japan on the issue of military sexual slavery in wartime
Corrigendum

Paragraph 98, third sentence

The sentence should read:

The Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which was singed in 1929 and came into force in 1931, and which Japan did not ratify, states clearly in article 3 that "prisoners of war are entitled to respect for their persons and honour. Women shall be treated with all consideration due to their sex ...".