Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind — A/RES/3384(XXX) | UN Mandate Registry

Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind

A/RES/3384(XXX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Declarations (Text)Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Human Rights International Security Science and Technology

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

1

All States shall promote international co-operation to ensure that the results of scientific and technological developments are used in the intere~ts of strengthening international peace and sec-urity,

freedom and independence, and also for the purpose of the economic and social development of peoples and the realization of human rights lllld freedoms in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

2

All States shall take appropriate measures to prevent the use of scientific and technological devel- General Asaembl,--Thirtieth Seuion

opments, particularly by the State organs, to limit or interfere with the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the individual as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international instruments.

3

All States shall take measures to ensure that scientific and technological achievements satisfy the material and spiritual needs of all sectors of the population.

4

All States shall refrain from any acts involving the use of scientific and technological achievements for the purposes of violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other Stares, interfering in their internal affairs, waging aggressive wars, suppressing national liberation movements or pursuing a policy of racial discrimination. Such acts are not only a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and principles of international law, but constitute an inadmissible distortion of the purposes that should guide scientific and technological developments for the benefit of mankind.

5

All States shall co-operate in the establishment, strengthening and development of the scientific and technological capacity of developing countries with a view to accelerating the realization of the social and economic rights of the peoples of those countries.

6

All States shall take measures to extend the benefits of science and technology to all strata of the population and to protect them, both socially and materially, from possible harmful effects of the misuse of scientific and technological developments, including their misuse to infringe upon the rights of the individual or of the group, particularly with regard to respect for privacy and the protection of the human personality and its physical and intellectual integrity.

7

All States shall take the necessary measures, including legislative measures, to ensure that the utilization of scientific and technological achievements promotes the fullest realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination. ~hatsoever on grounds of raoe, sex, language or rehg1ous beliefs.

8

All States shall take effective measures includin~ _Ieg!slative m~asu!es, to pre~nt and preciude the utilizatton of sc1~ntific and technological achievements to the detnment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the dignity of the human person. . 9. AH States sh~I, whenever necessary, take ac- !1on to ensu~e comphance with legislation guaranteem~ h1;1man nghts and freedoms in the conditions of sc1ent1fic and technological developments.

2400th plenary meetinK

10 November 1975

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