All those claims were designed to denigrate the Islamic religion and beliefs.

The pamphlets in question, moreover, were circulated in State schools in order to denigrate the Unification Church.

He suggested that the Committee consider developing a code of conduct aimed at restraining those who sought to denigrate the Islamic faith on the pretext of concern for human rights.

In sum, the widespread prostitution, trafficking and other forms of violence against women that mark women's experience today, mutually reinforce and are not separate from the existing attitudinal, economic and political prejudices that denigrate the personhood and dignity of woman.

29. The charges of intolerance levelled against the Sudan by various quarters were thus unfounded and doubtless attributable to unfamiliarity with the situation actually obtaining in the country, or else to political motives such as a desire to denigrate Islam and Muslims.

In the West, moreover, the events of 11 September 2001 have triggered an outburst of hostility in some quarters, which are using the pretext of terrorist atrocities committed by extremist groups to attempt to denigrate Islam and are seeking and herein lies the danger to concoct a clash of civilizations and fan it into flame.

Without wishing to denigrate the importance of the special sessions that generated a number of compendium items on our agenda, it is time to frame the agenda so that it communicates more clearly what the Committee is really doing. One way of doing this, as our European Union colleagues have suggested, is to group the items according to theme.

Attempts have been made to weaken the sense of national identity of the population of the occupied Syrian Golan by dividing them into Druze and Arab ethnic groups, by encouraging intercommunal religious bigotry in order to drive a confessional wedge into the body of the nation, particularly in the Syrian Arab Republic and Lebanon, and by propagating fabricated stories that denigrate Islam.

Likewise, instead of providing a shining example of supranational cooperation and pooled sovereignty for the twenty first century, the European Union remains mired in rather petty disputes. While it still cannot fully agree on the design of its banking union, it is allowing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, a member country, to denigrate the democratic and liberal values upon which the EU rests.

40. The Myanmar authorities stated, in response to the initial complaint and supplementary evidence, that they were aware of the criticisms made by some worker delegates relating to use of forced labour in Myanmar and that a considerable portion of the criticisms relating to Myanmar were unfortunately based on biased and specious allegations made by expatriates living outside Myanmar who wished to denigrate the Myanmar authorities for their own ends.