Designation of 1968 as International Year of Human Rights

A/RES/1961(XVIII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1964.

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Designates the year 1968 as International Year for Human Rights;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to invite the Commission on Human Rights at its forth-

11 Official Records of the General Assembly, Eighteenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 48, documents A/5411 and Add.1 and 2. coming sessions, with the assistance of the Secretary- General:

To prepare, for consideration by the General Assembly, a programme of measures and activities representing a lasting contribution to the cause of human rights, to be undertaken by the United Nations, by Member States and by the specialized agencies during the year 1968, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in furtherance of the objectives of the present resolution;

( b) To prepare, for consideration by the General Assembly, suggestions for a list of goals in the field of human rights to be achieved by the United Nations not later than the end of 1968;

To submit the programme of measures and activities and the suggestions for the list of goals in time for their consideration by the General Assembly at its twentieth session;

Invites the specialized agencies to render all assistance to the Commission on Human Rights in the preparation of the programme of measures and activities to be undertaken during the International Year for Human Rights in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration;

Invites all Member States to intensify their domestic efforts in the field oi human rights with the assistance of their appropriate organizations, in order that a fuller and more effective realization of these rights and freedorr.s might be achieved and might be reported at the proposed international review of such achievements in 1968 and thereafter.

12 December 1963.

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