International Year of Shelter for the Homeless

A/RES/40/203View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 84h International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1982–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/180

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/180	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	371	17%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/190	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	588	16%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/203	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	679	28%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/171	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	480	12%Compare
1984	A/RES/38/168	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	1,502	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Emergency Shelter Homeless Persons Housing Policy Intergovernmental Organizations International Financial Institutions International Organizations International Years Non-Governmental Organizations Periodic Reports Reporting Procedures Social Information

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Requests those countries that have not yet established official national focal points for the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless to do so in the near future, along the lines specified in the annex to General Assembly resolution 38/168;

A/so requests those countries that have not yet formulated national programmes and plans of action for the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless to do so and periodically to provide information on them to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) so that ali national focal points can be regularly informed of the activities, progress and achievements of the Year in countries around the world;

Further requests those countries and international organizations that have not yet done so to designate projects for the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless aimed at improving access to land, financing, building materials, training and employment, giving special attention to legal and institutional measures, and to send a project information sheet on each project to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat);

Requests ali countries in their periodic reports on their national programmes and projects for the Year, especially in reports to the Commission on Human Settlements at its ninth session, to give special attention to their plans for developing and implementing new national policies and strategies for improving shelter for, and the neighbourhoods of, the poor and disadvantaged by the year 2000;

Appea/s once again to ali Governments that have not yet announced a voluntary contribution, especially those of developed countries, as well as to international financia} institutions and intergovernmental and non-govemmental organizations, to provide effective financial and other support to the programme for the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1986 on progress achieved in the implementation of the approved programme of measures and activities to be undertaken before and during the lnternational Year of Shelter for the Homeless;97 7.

Invites the Economic and Social Council to include a special account of its deliberations on the subject in its report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;

Decides, in view ofthe fact that 1987 is the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, to devote special attention to the Year at its forty-first session.

119th p/enary meeting 17 December /985

96 A/40/689.

97 See A/38/233-F.i 1983/74 and Corr.1

1:i7 98 See also sect. I, footnotc 17, and sect. VI, resolution 40/IOI.

Peace. Nairobi, 15-26 Ju/y /98.1 (Umted Nations publication, Sales N,, 99 A/CONF.116/4 and Corr. 1.

E.85.IV.10), chap. 1, sect. A. IOO Report o( the World Conference to Review ami Appra1se the Achieve- IOI See Economic and Social Counc,I resolution 1985/46 of 3 I May 1985 ments ojthe Únited Nations T>ecadefor Women: Equality, T>eve/opment and

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