World Campaign Against Hunger, Disease and Ignorance

A/RES/1943(XVIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1964.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Basic Needs Cooperation Between Organizations Disease Control Education Food Health Hunger Non-Governmental Organizations

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Appeals to all non-governmental organizations to put their increased enthusiasm, energy and other resources into a world campaign in the basic human fields of food, health and education, including training, to start in 1965 and to continue for the remainder of the United Nations Development Decade;

Urges States to facilitate in all appropriate ways the efforts of their non-governmental organizations

taking part in such a campaign in the fields of food, health and education and contributing to the achievement of the objectives of the Decade ;

Requests the Secretary-GePeral to consult with the Governments of Member States and the specialized agencies, as well as wi_th_ non-governmental organizations in consultative status, and to report to the Economic and Social Council at its thirty-seventh session on the feasibility and the methods of stimulating such a campaign of non-governmental organizations under the auspices of the United Nations, bearing in mind the following considerations:

The value of closer contact between peoples and non-governmental organizations in the developed and the developing countries in order to improve understanding between them ;

111 Official Records of the Economic and Social C01tncil, Thirty-fifth Session, Annexes, agenda item 3, document E/3725. General A1111embly-Eishteenth Session

( b) The desirability of developing more active methods of co-operation between the United Nati.ons-including the specialized agencies-and non-governmental organiz8.tions. designed to extend non-governmental particip;:ition in the progress of the Decade, particularly in the fie1ds of food, health and education;

( c) The need to ensure that such a campaign is conducted under conditions which are acceptable to, and receive the approval and support of, the Governments of the countries concerned;

Invites the Economic and Social Council to consider the Secretary-General's report af its thirty-seventh session. and to t::ike s11ch action as it may deem appropriate.

11 December 1963.

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