UN General Assembly
1993

lacerating realities, humanity is facing other challenges which, though different, are no less complex. Recently, the World Conference on Human Rights concluded by reaffirming the universality, interdependence and indivisibility of those rights. That Conference rightly reiterated that the issue must be dealt with in an objective, impartial and non-selective manner. Attempts are made to say that the majority of violations of human rights originate in the impoverished countries of the South, while an overwhelming majority of their accusers come from the affluent countries of the North. It seems that those who claim to be the resolute defenders of certain individual freedoms, also include among those freedoms, and with equal ease, the violence that increasing neo-fascist and racist currents are unleashing in their own societies. Has that North not been the source, and now more than ever, of discrimination against migrant workers, against the increasingly dispossessed strata of society and against national minorities? Who are the main beneficiaries of the trade in human organs? Where are the deviant practices of pornography and