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Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

A/RES/32/117No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1978.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1978–1987
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/142
  • 1987A/RES/41/142Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and DevelopmentLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1979A/RES/34/59Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and DevelopmentCompare with previous version
  • 1979A/RES/2543(XXIV)Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and DevelopmentCompare with previous version
  • 1978A/RES/32/117Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and development

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics
DeclarationsSocial Change

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Urges all Governments to take due account of their ultimate responsibility of ensuring the social progress and well-being of their people, inter alía by adhering to the principles espoused in the Declaration on Social Progress and Development;
2
Recommends that international organizations and agencies concerned with development should continue to consider the Declaration as an important international document in the formulation of strategies and programmes designed to achieve social progress and development;
3
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare and submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session, through the Commission for Social Development and the Economic and Social Council, essentially from the information already available, a comprehensive report, in lieu of an annex to the 1978 Report on the World Social Situation as provided for in Assembly resolution 2543 (XXIV), on the implementation of the Declaration during the period 1969-1979 by Governments, international organizations and agencies concerned with development;
4
Decides, in order to mark the tenth anniversary of the Declaration, to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session a separate item entitled "Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development".

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