Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

A/RES/41/142View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1978–1987

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1987	A/RES/41/142	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development	767	31%Compare
1979	A/RES/34/59	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development	560	44%Compare
1979	A/RES/2543(XXIV)	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development	305	25%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/117	Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and development	387	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Declarations Social Change Social Development

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the lasting validity and importance of the principies and objectives proclaimed in the Declaration on Social Progress and Development;

Urges ali States and the relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take the Declaration resolutely into consideration and, in their policies, plans, programmes and implementation machinery, to take increasingly into consideration, as far as they are concerned, the principies, objectives, means and methods of the Declaration;

Urges ali Governments to take into account the provisions of the Declaration in their bilateral and multilateral relations in the field of development;

Recommends that international organizations and agencies concerned with development should consider the Declaration as an important international document in the formulation of strategies and programmes designed to achieve social progress and development, and that it be taken into consideration in the drafting of instruments that the United Nations may undertake in the field oí social progress and development;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a substantive report on possible ways and means of increasing the contribution of the relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, as far as they are

concerned, to achieving the full realization of the principies and objectives contained in the Declaration and to submit it, through the Commission for Social Development and the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session;

Also requests the Secretary-General to prepare a draft framework of the above-mentioned substantive report and to submit it to the Commission for Social Development at its thirtieth session in order to allow the Commission to make suggestions in regard to the preparation oí that report;

Further requests the Secretary-General to continue 1. to inform the General Assembly, in a summary form in annexes to the reports on the world social situation, of the measures adopted by Governments-not included in other reports provided on a regular basis-and by the international organizations concerned with a view to the realization ofthe provisions ofthe Declaration and the implementation of the present resolution.

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