Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat

A/RES/48/129View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1992–1995

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/195

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1995	A/RES/49/195	Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat	1,095	29%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/129	Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat	581	—
1993	A/RES/47/127	Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat	—	—
1992	A/RES/46/118	Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Budget Conferences Coordination Within UN System Declarations Financing Human Rights Human Rights Advancement Organizational Change Programmes of Action Staffing

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 1 (A/47/1), para. 100.

See A/48/1, sect. III.D, para. 250.

Supports the efforts of the Secretary-General to enhance the role and importance of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat as the coordinating unit, within the United Nations system, of bodies dealing with the promotion and the protection of human rights;

Requests the Secretary-General to make additional proposals to increase further the resources of the human rights programme in 1994-1995, so as to enable the Centre fully to discharge its duties implementing all the mandates assigned to it by the General Assembly and other legislative bodies;

Welcomes the recommendations of the World Conference on Human Rights concerning the strengthening of the Centre, as contained in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Takes note of the recommendation of the Committee for Programme and Coordination that the General Assembly approve the programme narratives of section 21 of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1994-1995; 4/

Takes note also of the statement by the Secretary-General in his report concerning the implications of organizational changes in the Secretariat that he would propose to use the remaining vacant posts now available in the Secretariat in the light of new initiatives and emerging mandates and priorities; 5/

Requests the Secretary-General and Member States to ensure that appropriate additional resources from within the existing and future regular budgets of the United Nations are accorded to the Centre to enable it to carry out, in full and on time, the mandates contained in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action without diverting resources from development programmes and activities of the United Nations;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit an interim report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fiftieth session and a final report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session on the strengthening of the Centre and on the measures taken to implement the present resolution.

See A/48/16 (Part II), sect. III, para. 185.

See A/C.5/47/2 and Corr.1, para. 23.

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