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Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development

A/RES/34/59No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 77Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development, 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
  • 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?

1 topic
Social Development

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Recommends that all Governments should, in their policies, plans, programmes and implementation machinery, continuously take into consideration the principles, objectives, means and methods of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development;
Decides that the Declaration shall be taken into account in the formulation of the international development strategy for the third United Nations development decade and in the implementation of programmes of international action to be carried out during the decade;
3
invites all Governments to take into account the provisions of the Declaration in their forthcoming bilateral and multilateral co-operation;
4
Recommends that international organizations and agencies concerned with development should continue to utilize the provisions of the Declaration, as an important international document, in the formulation of strategies and programmes aimed at social progress and development and that those provisions should be taken into consideration in the drafting of instruments that the United Nations may employ in the field of social progress and development;
5
Requests the Secretary-General to continue, in co-operation with Governments, to record, analyse and disseminate as widely as possible significant national and international progress made towards realizing the commendable objectives contained in the universally accepted Declaration;
6
Further requests the Secretary-General to continue to inform the General Assembly, in summary form in annexes to the reports on the world social situation, of the measures adopted by Governments, which may not be included in other reports provided on a regular basis, and by the international organizations concerned for the realization of the provisions of the Declaration and for the implementation of the present resolution.

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