Review and Co-Ordination of Human Rights Programmes of Organizations in the United Nations System and Co-Operation with Other International Programmes in the Field of Human Rights

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 85 Review and coordination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Nations System and cooperation with other international programmes in the field of human rights, published in 1979.

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2 documents · 1979

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1979	A/RES/34/25	Review and co-ordination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Nations system and co-operation with other international programmes in the field of human rights	2,144	–
1979	A/RES/33/54	Review and co-ordination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Nations System and co-operation with other international programmes in the field of human rights	587	–

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Coordination Within UN System Human Rights Latin America Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones

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Regional seminars should be organized on an annual basis, at • the level of the regional commissions, on specific subjects.

The United Nations should adopt other measures aimed at improving the situation and ensuring the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers, including the drawing up of a convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers.

Activities should be undertaken to encourage the effective contribution of youth to the struggle against racism, racial discrimination and apartheid.

A week of solidarity with the peoples struggling against racism and racial discrimination, beginning on 21 March, should be organized annually in all States.

All States should adopt, as a matter of high priority, measures to declare punishable by law any dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred and to prohibit organizations based on racial prejudice and hatred, including neo-Nazi and Fascist organizations and private clubs and institutions established on the basis of racial criteria or propagating ideas of racial discrimination and apartheid.

All States should eliminate, through legislation and administrative measures, all discriminatory practices against members of immigrant communities. They should ensure that immigrants and their families are gi-ven treatment which is no less favourable than that accorded their own nationals in matters such as education, employment, acquisition of property, health and housing facilities and travel within and outside the country.

The main activities to be undertaken for the achievement of these objectives are set forth below. This implies that:

The United Nations should provide adequate financial and human resources according to the priorities established by the General Assembly to combat racism, racial discrimination and apartheid;

The specialized agencies and other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned must, within their respective fields of competence, make an essential contribution to the attainment of these ends. In addition to the preparation of the report of the Secretary-General requested in paragraph 18 (j) of the Programme for the Decade, a certain number of activities should be undertaken during the second half of the Decade in particular.

In the light of paragraph 13 (b) of the Programme for the Decade, a seminar should be organized in 1981 by the Commission on Human Rights, in co-operation with the Special Committee against Apartheid, in order to study the formulation of effective measures to prevent transnational corporations and other established interests from collaborating with the racist regimes in southern Africa. The Commission on Transnational Corporations and the Commission on Human Rights should make a study in co-operation with the Special Committee against Apartheid, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the United Nations Council for Namibia with a view to enumerating specific measures whose application by all States, intergovernmental organizations, private institutions and non-governmental organizations will make it possible to end all collaboration with the racist regimes and prevent the supply of capital, loans, credits, foreign currency and any other form of commercial, financial and technological assistance to the economies of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and Namibia by private banks, Governments and international agencies, such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, the International Monetary Fund and similar institutions.

In accordance with General Assembly resolution 3377

(XXX) of 10 November 1975, the Commission on Human Rights, in co-operation with the Sub-Commission on Prevention

8 ''Towards a World without Racism" (OPl/613). of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, should undertake a study on ways and means of ensuring the implementation of the United Nations resolutions on apartheid, racism and racial discrimination and submit its conclusions to the Assembly at its thirty-seventh session through the Economic and Social Council.

A study should be undertaken in 1980 by the Ad Hoe Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa on ways and means of implementing international instruments, such as the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, including the establishment of the international jurisdiction envisaged by the Convention.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research should organize an international colloquium in 1980 on the elimination of apartheid, racism and racial discrimination and the achievement of self-determination in international law, with special attention to the principles of non-discrimination and selfdetermination as peremptory norms of international law.

A study should be prepared by the Secretary-General in 1981 on the links between the struggle against racism and the struggle for self-determination in southern Africa.

A study should be prepared in 1981 by the Commission on the Status of Women on the situation of women and children living under the racist minority regimes in southern Africa, especially under the apartheid regime, and of women and children living in the occupied Arab territories and other occupied territories.

A study should be undertaken in 1981 by the Secretary- General, in co-operation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, on the links between racial discrimination and inequalities in the fields of education, nutrition, health, housing and cultural development.

Under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a round-table of editors of newspapers concerned in informing public opinion about the evils of racism and racial discrimination, with wide circulation and from the various geographical regions, should be convened in the second half of 1980, on the basis of equitable distribution, to study the role of the mass communication media in combating racism, racial discrimination and apartheid. A report on the work of the round-table should be submitted to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 198 I.

An important feature of the second half of the Decade should be the holding of a second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, preferably at the end of the Decade, in order to review and appraise the activities undertaken during the Decade and to chart new measures where necessary. In accordance with the mandate given it, defined in paragraph 18 of the Programme for the Decade, the Economic and Social Council would act, as it did in the case of the first Conference, as a preparatory committee for this Conference.

The Economic and Social Council should plan to begin

considering the preparations for the Conference at its first regular session of 1980.

34 / 25. Review and co-ordination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Na• tions system and co-operation with other international programmes in the field of human rights

Welcomes the action decided upon by the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council in response to General Assembly resolution 33/54;

Urges those specialized agencies and other organs and bodies within and related to the United Nations system which are, according to their explicit mandates,

concerned with the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms to offer their full cooperation to the Secretary-General in his preparation of the preparatory material which will be the basis for the study to be carried out by the Commission on Human Rights at its thirty-seventh session;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to give priority to the completion of that study at its thirtyseventh session in 1981;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session the item entitled "Review and coordination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Nations system and co-operation with other international programmes in the field of human rights" and to give high priority to the consideration of the item at that session.

34 / 26.

Status of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General10 on the status of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;11 2.

Expresses its satisfaction with the increase in the

number of States which have ratified the Convention or acceded thereto;

9 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1979, Supplement No. 6 (E/1979/36), chap. XXIV, sect. A.

10 A/34/441.

11 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.

Reaffirms once again its conviction that ratification of or accession to the Convention on a universal basis and implementation of its provisions are necessary for the realization of the objectives of the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

Requests States which have not yet become parties to the Convention to ratify it or accede thereto;

Appeals to States parties to the Convention to study the possibility of making the declaration provided for in article 14 of the Convention;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to submit to the General Assembly annual reports concerning the status of the Convention, in accordance with Assembly resolution 2106 A (XX) of 21 December 1965.

34/27. Status of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

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