Documents Considered by the General Assembly in Connection with the Question of Human Rights

A/DEC/57/533View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, published in 2003.

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6 versions · 1999–2004

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2 subjects

Documents Human Rights

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19 paragraphs

At its 77th plenary meeting, on 18 December 2002, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Third Committee,87 took note of the following documents submitted under sub-items (a) to (c) and (e) of the agenda item entitled “Human rights questions”:

Under sub-item (a):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture;88

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery;89

(c) Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;90

Under sub-item (b):

(a) Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of migrants;91

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the role and achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in assisting the Government and people of Cambodia in the promotion and protection of human rights;92

(d) Report of the Secretary-General on human rights and unilateral coercive measures;94

(e) Report of the Secretary-General on strengthening United Nations action in the field of human rights through the promotion of international cooperation and the importance of non-selectivity, impartiality and objectivity;95

(f) Report of the Secretary-General on the Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa;96

87 A/57/556, para. 4. 88 A/57/268. 89 A/57/308. 90 A/57/400. 91 A/57/134. 92 A/57/277. 93 A/57/311 and Add.1. 94 A/57/371. 95 A/57/385. 96 A/57/394.

(g) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of his Special Representative on human rights defenders;97

(h) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities;98

(i) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Timor- Leste;99

Under sub-item (c):

(a) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Sierra Leone;100

(b) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Myanmar;101

(d) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967;103

Under sub-item (e):

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.104