Alternative Approaches and Ways and Means Within the United Nations System for Improvement of the Effective Enjoyment of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 87 Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations System for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1979.

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Human Rights Advancement

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Mindful of the important contribution which the Division of Human Rights of the Secretariat has made to United Nations activities for the promotion and protection of human rights since the inception of the Organization,

Believing, however, that the activities of the human rights sector of the Secretariat should be enhanced so as petter to enable it to meet the needs of the Organization and the international community, particularly after the entry into force of the International Covenants on Human Rights46 and the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, 47 and bearing in mind policy-making decisions of the General Assembly such as resolution 32/130 of 16 December 1977,

Recalling the report of the Secretary-General on organizational nomenclature in the Secretariat,48 the general direction of which was endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 32/204 of 21 December 1977,

Requests the Secretary-General to consider the redesignation of the Division of Human Rights as a Centre for Human Rights, in the light of the views expressed on the proposed redesignation at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission on Human Rights;

Invites the Secretary-General to ensure that adequate financial and other resources are allocated to the sector of the Secretariat concerned with human rights, so as to enable it to discharge its functions, in the light of the resu!ts. of the relevant study to be conducted by the Comm1ss1on on Human Rights at its thirty-sixth session in accordance with paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution 34/ 46 of 23 November 1979;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

34/ 48.

Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for the improvement of the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

Decides to consider at its thirty-fifth session the question of the creation of a post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights under the item entitled "Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms".

34 / 49.

National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights

Invites all Member States to take appropriate steps for the establishment of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, bearing in mind the guidelines referred to above; . 2.

Emphasizes the importance of the integrity and mdependence of such national institutions, in accordance with national legislation;

Draws attention to the constructive role which national non-governmental organizations can play in the work of national institutions;

Requests the Secretary-General, in submitting to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session the report requested in paragraph 6 of Commission on Human Rights resolution 24 (XXXV), to draw also upon other relevant sources, such as the reports and documents of the Seminar on National and Local Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human 50 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1979, Supplement No. 6 (E/1979/36), chap. IX, sect. A.

51 lbid., 1978, Supplement No. 4 (E/1978/34), chap. XXVI, sect. A.

62 Ibid., 1979, Supplement No. 6 (E/1979/36), chap. XXIV, sect. A.

53 See ST /HR/SER.A/2 and Add.1.

54 See ST/HR/SER.A/3.

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