World Social Situation

A/RES/2035(XX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1966.

What other versions does this mandate have?

13 versions · 1964–1992

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/46/95

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1992	A/RES/46/95	World social situation	—	—
1991	A/RES/45/87	World social situation	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/56	World social situation	—	—
1986	A/RES/40/100	World social situation	1,369	40%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/54	World social situation	1,534	—

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 1968

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
1968	A/7248	World social situation report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/2293(XXII)

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Cultural Cooperation Economic Conditions Economic Development Educational Exchanges Employment Health Permanent Sovereignty Principles Report Preparation Social Change Social Conditions Social Development Standard of Living

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Requests the Economic and Social Council a_nd the Social Commission, when considering the role which the United Nations should play in the social field, to bear in mind, inter alia, the following general principles:

The responsibility of the Council, as set forth in Articles 55 and 58 of the Charter of the United Nations:

To promote higher standards of living;

To promote full employment and conditions of economic and social progress and development ;

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To promote solutions of international economic,

social, health and related problems;

To promote international cultural and educational co-operation;

( v) To make recommendations for the co-ordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies;

( b) The necessity to direct the main efforts of ~he United Nations in the social field towards supporting and strengthening independent social and economic development in the developing cou_ntries, with fu_ll respect for their permanent sovereignty over their natural resources, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962;

( c) The interrelated character of economic and social factors and the basic requirement that economic and social development should go together with a view to promoting better standa_rds of life. in_ large: freedom. the importance of planning for achieving this end and the role of Governments in promoting balanced and sound economic and social development ;

( d) The necessity for mobilizing national resources and encouraging creative initiatives of all peoples for the achievement of social progress ;

( e) The significance of adequate structural social and economic changes for the achievement of social progress;

The necessity for the widest possible utili~ation of the experience of the developed and developing countries with varying economic and social systems;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the specialized agencies and in the light of relevant discussions and decisions of the Social Commission, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly, to prepare, for submission by the Council to the Assembly at its twenty-first session, a draft longrange social programme of the United Nations and a report on the implementation of Assembly resolution 1916 (XVIII);

Requests the Economic and Social Council, in co-operation with the specialized agencies, to submit proposals in respect of vital social problems on which the General Assembly might appropriately take action and make recommendations in accordance with Article 13 of the Charter ;

Decides to consider at its twenty-first session the possibility and advisability of preparing a declaration on social development-based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and on the resolutions o~ the Ge~eral ~ssembly and the Economic and Social . Co~ncil-whi~h would lay down broad lines for the obJe~ti~es o_f social development and for the means of achieving it, an~, for this purpose, requests the Secreta_ry-General, . in co-operation with the specialized agencies, to provide the relevant documentation, data and any other appropriat<c information.

7 December 1965.

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