Effective Implementation of International Instruments on Human Rights, Including Reporting Obligations Under International Instruments on Human Rights

A/RES/47/111View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97a Implementation of human rights instruments, published in 1993.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 1990–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/202

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/202	Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights	1,823	52%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/90	Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights	1,972	60%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/138	Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights	2,250	72%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/118	Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights	2,026	50%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/87	Effective implementation of international instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights	1,555	52%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Advisory Services Budget Conferences Coordination Within UN System Databases Experts Financing Human Rights International Instruments Periodic Reports Racial Discrimination Recommendations Reporting Procedures Staffing Standards Technical Cooperation Torture and Other Cruel Treatment Treaties

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations of the meetings of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies aimed at streamlining, rationalizing and otherwise improving reporting procedures, and supports the continuing efforts in this connection by the treaty bodies and the Secretary-General within their respective spheres of competence;

Expresses its satisfaction with the study by the independent expert on possible long-term approaches to enhancing the effective operation of existing and prospective bodies established under United Nations instruments on human rights, which contains several recommendations on reporting and monitoring procedures, servicing and financing of supervisory bodies and long-term approaches to human rights standard-setting and implementation mechanisms, and which was presented to the Commission on Human Rights for detailed consideration at its forty-sixth session, and, in the light of the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the fourth meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies,~/ requests that the report of the independent expert be updated for submission to the Commission at its fiftieth session and that an interim report be presented to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session and be made available to the World Conference on Human Rights in June 1993;

Requests the Secretary-General to give high priority to establishing a computerized database to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the functioning of the treaty bodies;

Again urges States parties to make every effort to meet their reporting obligations and to contribute, individually and through meetings of States parties, to identifying and implementing ways of further streamlining and improving reporting procedures as well as enhancing coordination and information flow between the treaty bodies and with relevant United Nations bodies, including specialized agencies;

~/ See CAT/SP/SR.4.

10/ As a result of this amendment, the existing paragraph 4 of article 18 will be renumbered paragraph 5.

il/ A/46/650 and A/47/518.

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Welcomes the emphasis placed by the meetings of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies and by the Commission on Human Rights on the importance of technical assistance and advisory services and, further to this end:

Endorses the request of the Commission to the Secretary-General to report regularly to it on possible technical assistance projects identified by the treaty bodies;

Invites the treaty bodies to give priority attention to identifying such possibilities in the regular course of their work of reviewing the periodic reports of States parties;

Endorses the recommendations of the meetings of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on the need to ensure financing and adequate staffing resources for the operations of the treaty bodies and, with this in mind:

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to provide adequate resources with regard to the various treaty bodies;

Requests the Secretary-General to report on this question to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-ninth se3sion and to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session;

Calls upon all States parties to meet fully and without delay their financial obligations under the relevant instruments on human rights, and requests the Secretary-General to consider ways and means of strengthening collection procedures and making them more effective;

Emphasizes that any administrative and budgetary measures shall be taken without prejudice to the duty of States parties under United Nations human rights instruments to meet all their current and outstanding financial obligations pursuant to such instruments;

Endorses the amendments to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 12/ and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 13/ and requests the Secretary-General:

To take the appropriate measures to provide for the financing of the committees established under those conventions from the regular budget of the United Nations, beginning with the budget for the biennium 1994-1995;

To take the necessary measures to ensure that the two committees meet as scheduled until the amendments enter into force;

Requests the Secretary-General to take the appropriate steps in order to finance the biennial meetings of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies from the resources available from the regular budget of the United Nations;

12/ Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.

13/ Resolution 39/46, annex.

Also requests the Secretary-General, in the light of the views expressed at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights and the thirty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session a report examining the conclusions and recommendations of the fourth meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies, held in October 1992; ~/ Decides to give priority consideration at its forty-eighth session 12. to the conclusions and recommendations of the meetings of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies under the item entitled "Human rights questions".

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