Regional Arrangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia and Pacific Region

A/RES/43/140View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1989.

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13 subjects

Advisory Services Asia and the Pacific Conferences Coordination Within UN System Data Collection Depository Libraries Human Rights Advancement Human Rights Education Information Dissemination Regional Cooperation Teaching Materials Training Programmes Written Communications

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11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; 147 2.

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to assist and encourage the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to pursue the establishment, within existing resources, of a deposi tory centre for United Nations human rights materials within the Commission at Bangkok, the function of which would include the collection, processing and dissemina tion of such materials in the Asian and Pacific region;

Renews its invitation to States members of the Eco nomic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific that have not yet done so to communicate to the Secre tary-General as soon as possible their comments on the re port of the Seminar on National, Local and Regional Ar rangements for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asian Region and, in particular, to address themselves to the conclusions and recommendations in the report concerning the development of regional ar rangements in Asia and the Pacific;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure a continu ing fow of human rights material to the library of the Eco nomic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific at Bangkok for appropriate dissemination in the region;

Notes the efforts of United Nations development agencies in the Asian and Pacific region to promote the human rights dimension more actively and systematically in their development activities;

Encourages United Nations development agencies in the Asian and Pacific region to co-ordinate with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific their efforts to promote the human rights dimension in their activities;

145 A/37/422, annex.

146 See A/39/174-E/1984/38 and Add.I and E/CN.4/1986/19.

147 A/4Vt 70-E/1988/25.

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General148 on the successful training course on human rights teaching held at Bangkok from 12 to 23 October 1987 under the United Nations programme of advisory services in the field of human rights;

Draws attention to the summary of discussions and conclusions in the report, in particular to the need to ad vance both formal and informal teaching of human rights in the region, with emphasis on the identification of target groups, particularly in rural areas;

Notes the general consensus among participants in the training course that it would be useful for the better identification of existing measures and the dissemination of materials to establish a resource library that would col lect and disseminate laws, documents and other publica tions throughout the region;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a further report to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, incorporating information on progress achieved in the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to continue its consideration of the ques t ion at its forty-fifth session.

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