The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jose Ayala Lasso, has established a Human Rights Fax Hot Line in Geneva, a 24-hour fax line for victims of human rights violations, their relatives and NGOs. This will allow the UN Centre for Human Rights in Geneva to monitor and react rapidly to human rights emergencies, such as the crisis in Rwanda. The Centre for Human Rights will also create a Human Rights Database to gather information for use by special rapporteurs who are responsible for investigating questions such as religious intolerance, torture, racism and freedom of expression. The Database will be available by modem to human rights rapporteurs and experts world-wide.