Measures of Assistance Provided to South African and Namibian Refugee Women and Children

A/RES/41/123View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99b Assistance to refugees in Africa, published in 1987.

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14 subjects

Apartheid Child Refugees Conferences Coordination Within UN System Front-Line States Humanitarian Assistance Information Dissemination Namibian Refugees National Liberation Movements Refugee Assistance South African Refugees Southern Africa Women Refugees Work Programme

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9 operative paragraphs

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/25 on measures of assistance provided to South African, Namibian and refugee women;

Calls upan ali Governments, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to intensify their support for and solidarity with refugee women and children outside South Africa and Namibia and in front-line States, in particular:

To provide for the widest possible dissemination of information about the situation of refugee women and children;

To provide legal, humanitarian and other assistance to refugee women and children and their families who are victims of apartheid;

To provide assistance to women in the national liberation movements to enable them to attend major international conferences and seminars and to undertake speaking tours further to promote international solidarity with the oppressed women;

To support the projects and activities of the southern African national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity, particularly those involving refugee women and children;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure close coordination between United Nations bodies, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, the Centre against Apartheid, the Centre for Human Rights and the United Nations Council for Namibia, as well as the Department of Public lnformation ofthe Secretariat, with a view to maximizing publicity on the situation of refugee women and children;

Requests the Special Committee against Apartheid to include in its programme ofwork for 1988 the organization of a seminar on the special needs ofSouth African and Namibian refugee women and children and ways of increasing measures of assistance to them, in co-operation with other relevant United Nations bodies;

Decides to consider the measures of assistance provided to South African and Namibian refugee women and children under the item entitled "Office ofthe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees" of the provisional agenda of its forty-second session.

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