UN General Assembly
1995

of the most savage manifestations of this has been taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. International terrorism has become a global menace. The illicit trade in drugs undermines the fabric of society. Trafficking in women and children is a crime that cries out for international cooperative countermeasures. The recent resumption of nuclear testing by two of the nuclear-weapon States poses an immediate threat to people’s health, the natural environment, and the non-proliferation regime. We repeat our condemnation of these tests and ask that they stop — now and forever. Even as the notion of economic liberalization has been almost universally embraced as a condition and catalyst for development, many countries have resorted to inventive measures of disguised protectionism. Numerous developing countries continue to labour, like Sisyphus, under the crushing burden of foreign debt. Shortages of labour in resource-rich or rapidly industrializing economies have induced the large-scale migration of workers across national boundaries. Their presence in foreign lands has placed them in positions of vulnerability that require international cooperation for the protection of their rights and dignity as human beings.