Adverse Consequences for the Enjoyment of Human Rights of Political, Military, Economic and Other Forms of Assistance Given to Colonial and Racist Régimes in Southern Africa

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1976–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/35/32

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/35/32	Adverse consequences for the enjoyment of human rights of political, military, economic and other forms of assistance given to colonial and racist regimes in southern Africa	2,145	18%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/23	Adverse consequences for the enjoyment of human rights of political, military, economic and other forms of assistance given to colonial and racist régimes in southern Africa	905	13%Compare
1976	A/RES/3383(XXX)	Adverse consequences for the enjoyment of human rights of political, military, economic and other forms of assistance given to colonial and racist regimes in southern Africa	299	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Apartheid Development Assistance Human Rights Military Assistance National Liberation Movements Natural Resources Permanent Sovereignty Southern Africa Transnational Corporations

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

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Reaffirms the inalienable right of the oppressed peoples of southern Africa to self-determination, independence and the enjoyment of the natural resources of their territories;

Again reaffirms the right of those same peoples to dispose of those resources for their greater wellbeing and to obtain just reparation for the exploitation, depletion, loss or depreciation of those natural resources, including reparations for the exploitation and abuse of their human resources;

Vigorously condemns the policies of maintaining the economic interests of certain Western and other States, as well as the activities of multinational corporations, and the increasing collaboration by some of those States and multinational corporations with the racist regimes in southern Africa, especially in the political, economic, military and nuclear fields, which impedes the enjoyment of human rights of the oppressed peoples of southern Africa;

Reaffirms once again that the States which give assistance to the colonial and racist regimes in southern Africa become accomplices in the inhuman practices of racial discrimination, colonialism and apartheid perpetrated by those regimes;

Requests the Security Council finally to adopt binding decisions to prohibit all collaboration with South Africa in the nuclear field, and to take effective measures to prevent the apartheid regime from acquiring nuclear weapons;

Appeals to all States scrupulously to observe the sanctions imposed by the United Nations on the illegal minority regime in Southern Rhodesia and the arms embargo imposed by the Security Council under its resolution 418 (1977) of 4 November 1977;

Appeals to all States, the specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations to extend all possible co-operation to the liberation movements of southern Africa recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity;

Expresses its appreciation for the updated report submitted by the Special Rapporteur; . 9.

~nv_ites t~e C~mmission o~ Human Rights to give pnonty at its thuty-fifth session to consideration of the above-mentioned report prepared in pursuance of resolution 2 (XXXI) of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities;

Requests the Secretary-General to have the ab_ove-mentioned report of the Special Rapporteur prmted, to arrange for its widest possible dissemination and to transmit it to the Special Committee against Apartheid, the United Nations Council for Namibia and other bodies concerned within the United Nations system;

Decides to consider this item at its thirty-fifth session as a matter of high priority in the light of any recommendations which the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, the Commission on Human Rights, the Economic and Social Council and the Special Committee against Apartheid may wish to submit to it.

5 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, n See Official Records of the Economic and Social Coun-

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11 A/33/199 and Add.1-3.

text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Thirtv-.l"ccond Year, Supplement for July, Au[?ust and September 197·7_ _13 Report of the World Conference for Action ag11i11s1 Ap:trthetd, La{?os, 22-26 August 1977 (United Nations puhlic:ition,

Sales No. E.77.XIV.2 ,md corrigendum). sect. X.

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