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Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

A/RES/2543(XXIV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1978–1987
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/142
YearSymbolTitleWord lengthText similarity
1987
A/RES/41/142

Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

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1979
A/RES/34/59

Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

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1979
A/RES/2543(XXIV)

Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

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1978
A/RES/32/117

Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and development

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What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects
DeclarationsDevelopment StrategiesInformation DisseminationPeriodic ReportsProgramme PlanningReport PreparationSocial ChangeSocial Development

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Recommends that all Governments should take into consideration in their policies, plans and programmes the principles, objectives and means and methods of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development;
2
Decides that the D.eclaration shall be taken into account in the formulation of the strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade and in the implementation of programmes of international action to be carried out during the Decade;
3
Urges a11 Govemments to take into account the provisions of the Declaration in their bilateral and multilateral relations in the field of development;

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4
Recommends that international organizations and agencies concerned with development should consider the Declaration as an important intemational document in the formulation of strategies and programmes designed to achieve social progress and development, and that it may be taken into consideration in the drafting of instruments that the United Nations may undertake in the field of social progress and development;
5
Requests the Secretary-General to arrange, in co-operation with Governments, the widest possible dissemination of the Declaration;
6
Further requests the Secretary-General to inform the General Assembly, in a summary form in annexes to the reports on the world social situation, of the measures adopted by Govemments-not included in other reports provided on a regular basis-and by the international organizations concemed for the realization of the provisions of the Declaration and for the implementation of the present resolution.
11 December 1969.
(e) lncreased utilization of science and technology for social and economic . development; arrangements for the transfer and exchange of technology, including know-how and patents, to the developing countries.
Article 25
(a) Toe establishment of legal and administrative measures for the protection and improvement of the human environment at both national and international levels;
(b) Toe use and exploitation, in accordance with the appropriate international régimes, of the resources of areas of the environment such as outer space and the sea-bed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, in order to supplement national resources available for the achievement of economic and social progress and development in every country, irrespective of its geographical location, special consideration being given to the interests and needs of the developing countries.
Article 26 Compensation for damages, be they social or economic
a result of aggression and of illegal occupation of territory by the aggressor.
Article 27
(a) Toe achievement of general and complete disarmament and the channelling of the progressively released resources to be used for economic and social progress for the welfare of people everywhere and, in particular, for the benefit of developing countries;
( b) The adoption of measures contributing to disarmament, including, ínter alía, the complete prohibition of tests of nuclear weapons, the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical . and bacteriological (biological) weapons and the prevention of the pollution of oceans and inland waters by nuclear wastes.
e Toe Convention entered into force on 4 January 1969.
7 Final Act of the lnternational Conference on Human Rights (United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.68.XIV.2), 11 Resolution 2542 (XXIV).
p. 18.

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