Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination General Reccommendation Vi

Urges all States, competent organizations of the United Nations system, specialized agencies and other in­ ternational organizations to extend their support to the Pal­ estinian people through its sole and legitimate representative, the Palestine Liberation Organization, in its struggle to re­ gain its right to self-determination and independence in ac­ cordance with the Charter of the United Nations;

Demands the immediate and unconditional release of all persons detained or imprisoned as a result of their struggle for self-determination and independence, full re­ spect for their fundamental individual rights and the obser­ vance of article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 19 under which no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;

Recommends that the Security Council should make urgent appeals for clemency to the South African authorities in order that the lives of the three African National Congress freedom fighters sentenced to death on 6 August 1982 may be saved in accordance with General Assembly resolution 37/1 of 1 October 1982;

Demands the immediate release of children detained in Namibian and South African prisons;

Urges all States, specialized agencies and compe­ tent organizations of the United Nations system to do their utmost to ensure the full implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and to intensify their efforts to support peoples under colonial, foreign and racist domination in their just struggle for self-determination and independence;

Requests the Secretary-General to give maximum publicity to the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and to give the widest possible publicity to the struggle being waged by oppressed peoples for the realization of their self-determination and national independence;

Requests the Secretary-General to invite the views and observations of States parties to the Convention on the causes of the situation described in general recommendation VI of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrim­ ination and to submit an analysis of the replies received in a report to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session, together with such suggestions as he might wish to make with a view to improving the situation;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in preparing his report, to consider the situation described in general rec­ ommendation VI of the Committee in the overall framework of reporting obligations that Member States have under the various human rights instruments in order to be able to take into account similar and related problems which may have arisen in compliance with such obligations;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit his report, together with the records of the General Assembly's consideration thereof, to the ninth meeting of the States parties to the Convention, to be held in 1984.