Protection of Human Rights in Chile

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Who created this mandate?

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

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6 versions · 1975–1982

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/36/157

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3 topics

Chile Disappearance of Persons Human Rights Violations

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs

Reiterates its profound indignation that the Chilean people continue to be subjected to constant and flagrant violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, to lack adequate constitutional and judicial safeguards of their rights and liberties and to suffer assaults on the freedom and integrity of their persons, in particular by methods of systematic intimidation, including torture, disappearance of persons for political reasons, arbitrary arrest, detention, exile and deprivation of Chilean nationality;

Expresses its particular concern and indignation at the continuing disappearance of persons, which is shown by the available evidence to be attributable to political reasons, and the refusal of the Chilean authorities to accept responsibility or to account for the large number of such persons, or even to undertake an adequate investigation of cases drawn to their attention;

Deplores, in this connexion, the unsatisfactory way in which the Chilean authorities have sought to fulfil their undertakings to the Secretary-General, acting under the mandate of General Assembly resolution 3 l I I 24, and relating to the disappeared relatives of the Chileans who drew attention to their plight by engaging in a hunger strike at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America at Santiago;

Further deplores the failure of the Chilean authorities to comply with their own repeated assurances to allow the Ad Hoe Working Group on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile to visit the country in accordance with its mandate;

Calls once more upon the Chilean authorities to restore and safeguard, without delay, basic human rights and fundamental freedoms and fully to respect the provisions of the relevant international instruments to which Chile is a party and, to this end, to implement paragraph 2 of General Assembly resolution 31/124;

Demands that the Chilean authorities put an immediate end to practices of inadmissible secret arrests and subsequent disappearance of persons whose de-

44 A/C.3/32/6 and Corr. I. tention is systematically denied or never acknowledged, and clarify forthwith the status of such persons;

Reiterates its invitation to Member States. United Nations agencies and other international organizations to inform the Secretary-General of steps taken to implement paragraph 4 of General Assembly resolution 31 / 124 in order to allow him to submit further reports to the Commission on Human Rights at its thirty-fourth session and the Assembly at its thirtythird session;

Invites the Commission on Human Rights:

To extend the mandate of the Ad Hoe Work- (a) ing Group, as presently constituted, so as to enable it to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session and to the Commission at its thirty-fifth session, with such additional information as may be necessary;

To submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through the Economic and Social Council, specific recommendations on possible humanitarian, legal and financial aid to those arbitrarily arrested or imprisoned, to those forced to leave the country and to their relatives;

( c) To submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through the Economic and Social Council, a progress report on action taken in compliance with paragraph 5 (c) of Assembly resolution 31/124;

Requests the President of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General to assist in any way they may consider appropriate in the re-establishment of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms in Chile.

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