World Social Situation

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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?

15 subjects

Basic Needs Economic Cooperation Education Health Hunger Income Distribution Malnutrition Periodic Reports Social Change Social Conditions Social Development Social Services Underemployment Unemployment Wealth

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the right and responsibility of each State and people to determine freely its own objectives of social development, to set its own priorities and to decide in conformity with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations the means and methods of their achievement without any external interference;

Notes with satisfaction the policies and programmes adopted by many developing countries, within their over-all development plans, despite the grave financial and other external constraints, to promote comprehensive social development in various fields, especially to improve the conditions in the particularly disadvantaged sectors of their societies;

Recognizes the need for continued efforts at the national level towards the promotion of social progress and development aiming at the fulfilment of basic needs of all segments of the population through measures leading to:

More equitable redistribution of income and_ wealth;

( b) The elimination of hunger and malnutrition;

( c) A reduction of unemployment and underemployment;

The improvement of the distribution of health, housing, education and other social services;

Welcomes the active participation and growing involvement of the people of all sectors of society, including the youth and women, in the programmes of socio-economic development in developing countries;

Reaffirms the urgency of observing the principles and implementing the decisions regarding the establishment of the new international economic order, as well as the targets and policy measures of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, as a necessary pre-condition for the success of measures to eradicate poverty and to ensure real social progress in developing countries;

Reaffirms also that the elimination of imperialism, colonialism, aggression, foreign occupation, all forms of discrimination and apartheid and threats against national sovereignty and territorial integrity is a pre-condition for social and economic progress;

Affirms that the need to eliminate social disparities in developing countries is an important reason for the developed countries to increase their commitment to achieving the goals of development co-operation and of the new international economic order;

Deeply deplores the lack of response from some of the developed countries to measures designed to establish the new international economic order;

Urges the organizations of the United Nations system to take into consideration Economic and Social Council decision 162 (LXI) of 3 August 1976, bearing in mind the close interrelationship between international economic relations and the world social situation;

Urges those developed countries that have not done so to respond in a spirit of co-operation and interdependence to ensure sustained socio-economic development in the developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to issue the report on the world social situation every four years, taking into consideration the provisions of the present resolution, and to give an account of the measures taken by Governments to implement these provisions.

VI. 31 Resolution 3517 (XXX). 32 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.IV.6.

34 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 3 (E/5768), chap. xx:

sect. A.

35 First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders: report by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. 1956.IV.4), annex I.A. 33 Ibid.

3 G See E/CN.4/1218, chap. XVII.

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