United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 60cHabitat : United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, published in 1977.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics

Audiovisual Materials Canada Establishment Human Settlements Information Centres Information Dissemination

What does this mandate say?

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Decides to maintain at this stage the present arrangements, without prejudice to any decision the General Assembly might take as regards the restructuring of the economic and social sectors of the United Nations system.

Requests Member States and the Secretary- General, when planning the implementation of the aforementioned recommendations adopted at Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, to bear in mind the measures that protect the decent living environment of the most vulnerable social groups, such as children, youth, the elderly and the handicapped, so that they may live in an environment which is equally accessible to all individuals;

Further requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the measures taken and the results obtained.

31/114. Collaboration between the United Nations and non-governmental organizations with regard to world-wide intercommunal co-operation

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Invites the Secretary-General to ensure that the international bodies responsible for implementing the relevant recommendations of Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements:

Study the specific possibilities and effective (a) conditions for collaboration between the United Nations and the non-governmental organizations concerned;

( b) Draw up with those organizations programmes of collaboration;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-fifth session on the evolution of those programmes.

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United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements

Decides to establish a United Nations Audio- Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements;

Invites all participants in Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements to transfer, as appropriate, to the Secretary-General or his designated agents the internegatives and international copyright of their audio-visual material prepared for and made available to the Conference, including material prepared with the assistance of the United Nations Environment Programme;

Invites Governments of Member States, as an important part of a programme for augmenting the audio-visual material on human settlements, to make available to the United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements new or enriched audio-visual presentations prepared for their programmes of national action;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to conclude an agreement with the appropriate Canadian authorities for the latter to provide the facilities and financial support to the United Nations Audio-Visual Information Centre on Human Settlements to carry out the Centre's responsibilities for the custody, reproduction and international distribution, for the period up to March 1980, of the audio-visual material prepared for the Conference, to ensure the widest possible use of the material by Governments and interested bodies, and calls for a review of the agreement in 1979.

31/116. Institutional arrangements for international co-operation in the field of human settlements

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Takes into account the paragraphs agreed to by Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, as contained in the preamble and in sections I to lX of the annex to Conference resolution 1, with due respect to the foot-note to section X of that annex;

Decides to defer until its thirty-second session the decision on the type of definitive intergovernmental body for human settlements and on the organizational link and location of the human settlements secretariat, when the guidelines from the Ad Hoe Committee on the Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System will be in hand, the financial implications of alternative institutional arrangements will be worked out and studied in greater depth, and the regional consultations will have been completed;

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Requests the Ad Hoe Committee on the Re- 1. structuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System to make available to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session any conclusions it has reached in the light of its over-all responsibilities which might have implications for institutional arrangements for human settlements;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to devote the necessary time at the outset of its sixty-third session to the examination of the developments in human settlements and the follow-up to Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements;

Recommends that those meetings of the Economic and Social Council should be at the expert or highest appropriate level and with the active participation of all interested delegations and that the Council at its organizational session for 1977 should ammge the necessary modalities to this end;

Requests the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session, as part of its agenda, to consider the report of the Secretary-General referred to in section III, paragraph 1 below, together with the views of the Ad Hoe Committee and of the regional commissions, with a view to taking action on the recommendations of the Conference regarding institutional arrangements,

bearing in mind the terms of reference contained in paragraphs 29 to 31 of the annex to Conferenc-:: resolution 1;

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