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Ivory Coast
Index
Côte d'Ivoire has a mixed record of human rights
observance.
The World Handbook of Political and Social
Indicators ranked
the country ninety-sixth on political rights and
ninety-second on
civil rights out of 144 nations. Freedom House has
consistently
rated Côte d'Ivoire low on its scale of political rights
and civil
liberties; nonetheless, in 1980 it elevated the country
from the
status of "not free" to "partly free." This rating put
Côte
d'Ivoire in the same category as Transkei (part of South
Africa)
and ranked it freer than Guinea but less free than
Senegal. The
Economist World Human Rights Guide rated the country
as "poor,"
while the United States Department of State's Country
Reports on
Human Rights Practices for 1987 officially
characterized human
rights conditions in Côte d'Ivoire as "generally
satisfactory."
Côte d'Ivoire was a signatory to a number of
international
human rights conventions, including the Slavery Convention
of 1926,
the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
of 1956,
the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Relative to the Treatment
of
Prisoners of War and Civilians in Time of War, and the
Protocol
Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967. It had not yet
signed
the 1953 Convention on the Political Rights of Women, the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of
Genocide of 1948, or the International Covenants on Civil
and
Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights of
1966.
Data as of November 1988
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