Protection of Human Rights in Chile

A/RES/36/157View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1982.

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6 versions · 1975–1982

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1982	A/RES/36/157	Protection of human rights in Chile	953	33%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/188	Protection of human rights in Chile	695	15%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/175	Protection of human rights in Chile	1,516	23%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/118	Protection of human rights in Chile	1,231	34%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/124	Protection of human rights in Chile	1,054	21%Compare

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2 subjects

Chile Human Rights Violations

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16 operative paragraphs

Commends the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Chile for his report, prepared in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 9 (XXXVII);

Reiterates its grave concern at the persistence and. in some respects, the deterioration of the human rights situation in Chile, as stated by the Special Rapporteur, and particularly:

The disruption of the traditional democratic legal (a) order and its institutions by the maintenance and expansion of emergency legislation and the promulgation of a constitution that fails to reflect a freely expressed popular will and clearly hampers the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the Chilean people and allows interference with such rights and freedoms;

The intensification of practices such as arbitrary detention and confinement in secret places, often accompanied by torture and inhuman or degrading treatment which, on occasion, result in unexplained deaths;

The persecution, intimidation and imprisonment, as well as the banishment and forced exile, of a number of persons who participate in trade union, academic and cultural and humanitarian activities;

Reiterates also its great concern at the fact that the remedies of habeas corpus or amparo prove to be not effective owing to the fact that the judiciary in Chile does not

fully exercise its powers in this respect and performs its functions with utmost restrictions;

· Urges the Chilean authorities to respect and promote human rights in accordance with their obligations under various international instruments and, in particular, to take the following concrete steps that could enable the Commission on Human Rights to consider terminating the mandate of the Special Rapporteur:

To put an end to the state of emergency. under which continued human rights violations occur, and to restore the democratic institutions and constitutional guarantees formerly enjoyed by the Chilean people:

To put an end to arbitrary detentions. physical or psychological intimidation and prosecution of persons who exercise their right to freedom of expression and opinion. including the right to petition;

To respect the human rights of persons detained for political reasons and to separate them from those detained for criminal offences;

To take effective measures to prevent torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment resulting, inter alia, in unexplained deaths and to prosecute and punish those responsible for such practices;

To investigate and clarify the fate of persons who have disappeared for political reasons. to inform the relatives of those persons of the outcome of the investigation and to prosecute and punish those responsible for such disappearances;

To restore fully trade union rights, especially the freedom to form trade unions which can operate freely without governmental control and can exercise fully the right to strike;

To guarantee the freedom of assembly and association, and the freedom of Chilean citizens freely to enter and leave the country, and to end the practice of banishment applied to nationals, a practice which amounts to forced exile from the country;

Urges once more the Chilean authonttes to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and to comply with their obligations under various international human rights instruments;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights at its thirty-eighth session to study thoroughly the report of the Special Rapporteur;

Invites the Commission on Human Rights to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for another year and requests the Commission to report on the human rights situation in Chile, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session.

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