Human Rights and Use of Scientific and Technological Developments

A/RES/40/111View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 102 Human rights and scientific and technological developments, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1984–1988

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/42/99

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1988	A/RES/42/99	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	825	66%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/113	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	649	55%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/111	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	953	87%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/134	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	892	76%Compare
1984	A/RES/38/113	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	765	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Civil and Political Rights Disarmament Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Right to Life War Propaganda

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

I.

Reaffirms that all peoples and all individuals have an inherent right to life and that the safeguarding of this cardinal right is an essential condition for the enjoyment

of the entire range of economic, social and cultural, as well as civil and political, rights;

Stresses once again the urgent need for the international community to make every effort to strengthen peace, remove the growing threat of war, particularly nuclear war, halt the arms race and achieve general and complete disarmament under effective international control and prevent violations of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations regarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States and the self-determination of peoples, thus contributing to ensuring the right to life;

Stresses further the foremost importance of the implementation of practical measures of disarmament for releasing substantial additional resources, which should be utilized for social and economic development, particularly for the benefit of the developing countries;

Calls upon all States to do their utmost to assist in ensuring the right to life through the adoption of appropriate measures at both the national and the international level;

Calls upon all States, appropriate organs of the United Nations, specialized agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned to take the necessary measures to ensure that the results of scientific and technological progress are used exclusively in the interests of international peace, for the benefit of mankind and for promoting and encouraging universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Again calls upon all States that have not yet done so to take effective measures with a view to prohibiting any propaganda for war, in particular the formulation, propounding and dissemination of propaganda for doctrines and concepts aimed at unleashing nuclear war;

Looks forward to further efforts by the Commission on Human Rights with a view to ensuring the inherent right of all peoples and all individuals to life;

Decides to consider this question at its forty-first session under the item entitled "Human rights and scientific and technological developments".

l 16th plenary meeting

13 December 1985

106 Resolution 2734 (XXV).

109 Resolution 361100 107 Resolution 3384 (XXX).

110 Resolution 39/ 11 anne, 108 Resolution 33/73.

111 A/40/493 and Add. I and .'

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