Question of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

A/RES/41/145View 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?

17 versions · 1983–2005

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/59/200

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2005	A/RES/59/200	Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,408	79%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/215	Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,514	68%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/103	Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,243	82%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/150	Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,135	95%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/94	Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,116	64%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2004–2006

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2006	A/61/289	Question on enforced or involuntary disappearances report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/59/200
2004	A/59/341	Question on enforced or involuntary disappearances report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/215

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Disappearance of Persons

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Expresses its appreciation to the Working Group on Enforced or lnvoluntary Disappearances for its humanitarian work and to those Governments that have co-operated with it;

Welcomes the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to extend for two years, on an experimental basis, the term of the mandate of the Working Group, as defined in Commission resolution 20 (XXXVI), of29 February 1980, 25 while maintaining the principie of annual reporting by the Group;

Also welcomes the provisions made by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1986/55 to enable the Working Group to fulfil its mandate with even greater efficiency;

Appeals to ali Governments, particularly those which have not yet replied to the communications addressed to them by the Working Group, to co-operate

fully with the Group so as to enable it, with respect for its working methods based on discretion, to perform its strictly humanitarian role;

Encourages the Governments concerned to consider the wish of the Working Group, when such a wish is expressed, to visit their countries, thus enabling the Group to fulfil its mandate even more effectively;

Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights to continue to study this question as a matter of priority and to take any step it may deem necessary to the pursuit of the task of the Working Group when it considers the report to be submitted by the Group to the Commission at its forty-third session;

Renews its request to the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Working Group with all necessary facilities.

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