Strengthening of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat

A/RES/49/195View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1995.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1992–1995

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?

9 subjects

Administration Advisory Services Budget Coordination Within UN System Financial Resources Human Rights Human Rights Advancement Operational Activities Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Supports the efforts of the Secretary-General to enhance the role and importance of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat, under the overall supervision of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;

Requests the Secretary-General and Member States to ensure that appropriate additional financial, material and personnel resources are provided in 1994-1995 from within the programme budget for the biennium 1994-1995⁹ to enable the Centre and the High Commissioner to carry out, in full and on time, the respective mandates assigned to them by the competent bodies dealing with human rights;

⁹Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/48/6/Rev.1); and ibid., Supplement No. 6A (A/48/6/Rev.1/Add.1).

Calls upon the Secretary-General to include in his submission for the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, giving due regard to development and other priority activities of the United Nations, human and financial resources for United Nations human rights activities, adequate to respond to the increase in mandated activities in order to enable the Centre and the High Commissioner to carry out their respective mandates efficiently and effectively;

Requests the Secretary-General to make available additional human and financial resources:

To the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights so as to enhance his ability to coordinate effectively human rights promotion and protection activities throughout the United Nations system, including the provision of advisory services and technical assistance;

To the Centre so as to strengthen its ability to discharge all its mandates, as well as its ability to deal with administrative and budgetary matters, including the provision of advisory services;

To the High Commissioner and the Centre so as to enhance their ability to carry out mandated operational activities and to coordinate efficiently with other relevant parts of the United Nations system on logistical and administrative questions;

Emphasizes that, while steps are being taken to improve the administrative efficiency of the Centre, and while it has noted with appreciation the measures recently taken by the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Head of the Centre for Human Rights, aimed at improving the management of the Centre, further steps should be undertaken to analyse the present and future utilization of available human and financial resources as well as additional measures to improve further the administrative efficiency and effectiveness of the Centre, if required with appropriate technical assistance;

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

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