Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 77 Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1978–1987

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/142

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1987	A/RES/41/142	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development	767	31%Compare
1979	A/RES/34/59	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development	560	44%Compare
1979	A/RES/2543(XXIV)	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development	305	25%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/117	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and development	387	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Social Development

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Recommends that all Governments should, in their policies, plans, programmes and implementation machinery, continuously take into consideration the principles, objectives, means and methods of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development;

Decides that the Declaration shall be taken into account in the formulation of the international development strategy for the third United Nations development decade and in the implementation of programmes of international action to be carried out during the decade;

invites all Governments to take into account the provisions of the Declaration in their forthcoming bilateral and multilateral co-operation;

Recommends that international organizations and agencies concerned with development should continue to utilize the provisions of the Declaration, as an important international document, in the formulation of strategies and programmes aimed at social progress and development and that those provisions should be taken into consideration in the drafting of instruments that the United Nations may employ in the field of social progress and development;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue, in co-operation with Governments, to record, analyse and disseminate as widely as possible significant national and international progress made towards realizing the commendable objectives contained in the universally accepted Declaration;

Further requests the Secretary-General to continue to inform the General Assembly, in summary form in annexes to the reports on the world social situation, of the measures adopted by Governments, which may not be included in other reports provided on a regular basis, and by the international organizations concerned for the realization of the provisions of the Declaration and for the implementation of the present resolution.

VI.

55 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/34/12).

56 Jbid., Supplement No. 12A (A/34/12/Add.1).

57 Ibid., Thirty-fourth Session, Third Committee, 42nd meeting, paras. 1-13.

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