UN General Assembly
1992

From the work of the Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, it would appear that it is only in some developing countries that one finds obstacles to the full application of human rights, disregarding the serious problems that exist in other nations. In both of these forums, it would appear that the credibility of democratic, freely elected Governments is being questioned, giving greater validity to the arguments presented by politically compromised organizations that favor sectarian movements which seek, through the use of force and by causing suffering to peoples, to alter lawful democratic institutions. It is urgent and necessary that the Committee dealing with Non-Governmental Organizations engage in a review of the non-governmental organizations that cooperate in the work of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and that participate in particular in the work of the Commission on Human Rights, in order to ensure that their participation is positive and does not answer to sectarian political interests that might tend to discredit them.