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Freedom of Information

A/RES/1189(XII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 34Freedom of information, published in 1958.

What else is in this group?

21 documents · 1949–1971
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1971).
  • 1971A/RES/2722(XXV)Freedom of informationCompare with earlier document
  • 1970A/RES/2596(XXIV)Freedom of informationCompare with earlier document
  • 1969A/RES/2448(XXIII)Freedom of informationCompare with earlier document
  • 1968A/RES/2336(XXII)Freedom of informationCompare with earlier document
  • 1967A/RES/2216(XXI)Freedom of informationCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
ConferencesFreedom of InformationHuman RightsTreaties

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs
Requests the Secretary-General:
a
To circulate to Member States the text of the preamble and nineteen articles of the draft Convention
• Ibid., Seventh Session, Annexes, agenda item 29, document A/AC.42/7 and Corr.I, annex.
Resolntiona adopted on the reports of the Third Committee
on Freedom of Information prepared in 1951 by the such constant review may be ensured, inter alia, by General Assembly's Ad Hoe Committee on the Draft including problems of fr~edom of info~ation in the Convention on Freedom of Information, together with agenda of its future sessions and exammmg means of a brief history of the development of this project, and providing for the continuing study of such problems; to invite them to submit their views and suggestions on
( b) Further to invite the Commission, when exa~inthe text and on the action which the General Assembly ing the report of its commit~ee appointed to ~e".1ew should take thereon ;
the work of the United Nations and the spec1ahzed
b
To invite Member States to provide a statement agencies on freedom of information, to. give SJ?ecial of the legal provisions relating to freedom of informaconsideration to the problem of developmg media of tion in their countries ;
information in under-developed countries ;
( c) To report on this consultation to the General
( c) To transmit to the General Assemb_ly . at its Assembly at its thirteenth session to enable the Assemthirteenth session the report of the Comm1ss1on on bly to give such priority as it may determine to the these matters, together with the Council's recommendaappropriate consideration of the draft Convention on tion thereon. Freedom of Information.

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