Dissemination of Information on Decolonization

A/RES/2879(XXVI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1972.

What other versions does this mandate have?

54 versions · 1972–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/104

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/104	Dissemination of information on decolonization	874	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/113	Dissemination of information on decolonization	873	99%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/100	Dissemination of information on decolonization	874	99%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/148	Dissemination of information on decolonization	874	98%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/104	Dissemination of information on decolonization	881	99%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2012–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/AC.109/2026/18	Dissemination of information on decolonization during the period from April 2025 to March 2026 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/104
2025	A/AC.109/2025/18	Dissemination of information on decolonization during the period from April 2024 to March 2025 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/113
2024	A/AC.109/2024/18	Dissemination of information on decolonization during the period from April 2023 to March 2024 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/100
2021	A/AC.109/2021/18	Dissemination of information on decolonization during the period from April 2020 to March 2021 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/121
2020	A/AC.109/2020/18	Dissemination of information on decolonization during the period from April 2019 to March 2020 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/112

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Decolonization Information Centres Information Dissemination Information Exchange Public Information Publications

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Approves the chapters of the report of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples relating to the question of publicity for the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization;

Atfirms the vital importance of urgently effecting the widest possible dissemination of information on the evils and dangers of colonialism, the continuing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peoples, particularly in southern Africa, and the efforts being made by the intemational community to eliminate the remaining vestiges of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations;

Requests the Secretary-General, having regard to the suggestions of the Special Committee, to continue to take concrete measures through all the media at bis disposal, including publications, radio and television, to give widespread and continuous publicity to the work of the United Nations in the field of decolonization, to the situation in the colonial Territories and to the continuing struggle for liberation being waged by the colonial peoples and, inter alia:

To intensify the activities of the information centres Iocated in southern Africa, including the establishment of an additional information centre where appropriate;

( b) To maintain a close working relationship with the Organization of African Unity by holding periodic

112 A/C.5/L.1068/Rev.2. For the text of this document, see

sion, Annexes, agenda item 76, document A/8531/ Add.1, para. 137.

ll3 A/C.5/1320/Rev.1 and Add.1.

114 A/8388.

* consultations and a systematic exchange of the relevant information with that organization;

To enlist, from the non-govemmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and from those non-govemmental organizations having a special interest in the field of decolonization, support in the dissemination of the relevant information;

To continue to publish, in consultation with the Special Committee, selected issues of the periodical Objective: Justice and the bulletin "United Nations and Southern Africa" in other languages besides English and French;

Requests Member States, in particular the administering Powers, to co-operate fully with the Secretary-General in the discharge of the tasks entrusted to him under paragraph 3 above;

Invites all States, the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system and non-govemmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, as well as other non-govemmental organizations having a special interest in the field of decolonization, to undertake, in co-operation with the Secretary-General and within their respective spheres of competence, the large-scale dissemination of the information referred to in paragraph 2 above;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Special Committee, to collect and prepare on a continuous basis for redissemination by the Office of Public Information, basic material, studies and articles relating to various aspects of the problems of decolonization;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Special Committee on the implementation of the present resolution;

Requests the Special Committee to continue to examine the question at its next session and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session.

20 December 1971.

annex, appendix V.

Offecial Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Ses- 55 See Offecial Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-

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