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Freedom of Information

A/RES/1313(XIII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 35Freedom of information, published in 1959.

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.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics
Freedom of InformationInformation DisseminationInformation NetworksInformation TransferLeast Developed CountriesMass MediaTechnical CooperationTreaties

What does this mandate say?

3 operative paragraphs

A

1
Expresses the hope that the Economic and Social Council, on the basis of the analysis to be prepared by the Secretary-General in response to Council resolutions 574 D (XIX) of 26 May 1955 and 643 (XXIII) of 25 April 1957, and taking into account recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights to be submitted in response to Council resolution 683 C (XXVI) of 21 July 1958, will formulate at its twenty-eighth session a programme of concrete action and measures on the international plane which could be undertaken for the development of information enterprises in under-developed countries, with an evaluation of the materi;;J, financial and prrfessional requirements and resources for the implementation of this programme ;
2
Invites the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to give particular attention to procedures by which constant review of the problems of providing technical assistance to under-developed countries in the field of information
'Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Twenty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 8 (E/3088), para. 123, resolution 6 (XIV). may be assured, and to report regularly to the Council on progress in this field ;
3
Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other specialized agencies as appropriate to formulate concrete proposals to assist in meeting the needs of less developed countries in building up adequate media of information, and to include an account of their efforts on this and other aspects of freedom of information in their annual reports to the Economic and Social Council.
12 December 1958.

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