Protection of the Human Rights in Chile

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

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3 subjects

Chile Human Rights Violations Working Groups

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Expresses its prof ound distress at the constant flagrant violations of human rights, including the institutionalized practice of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary arrest, detention and exile-to which the progress report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile, established under resolution 8 (XXXI) of the Commission on Human Rights, brings additional evidence-which have taken place and, according to existing evidence, continue to take place in Chile;

Calls upon the Chilean authorities to take, without delay, all necessary measures to restore and saf~ guard basic human rights and fundamental fi:eedoms and fully to respect the provisions of the intemational instruments to which Chile is a party and, to this end, to ensure that:

The state of siege or emergency is not used for the purpose of violating human rights and fundamental freedoms, contrary to article 4 of the Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;28

Adequate measures are talren to end the institutionalized practice of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in full respect of article 7 of the Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

The rights of all persons to liberty and security of person, in particular the rights of those who have been detainecl without charge or are in prison solely for political reasons, as provided for in article 9 of the Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, are fully guaranteed and steps are taken to clarify the status of those individuals who are not accounted for;

No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any aot or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence, under Játional or international law, at the time when it was committed, contrary to article 15 of the Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

No one, in accorda.p.ce with article 15, paragraph 2, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, shall be arbitrarily deprived of Chilean nationality;

The right to freedom of association, including the right to form and join trade uníons, shall be respected, in accordance with article 22 of the Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

21 A/10295.

22 A/1028S, annex.

23 Resolution 2:200 A (XXI), annex.

The right to intellectual freedoms, as provided for in article 19 of the Intemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, shall be guaranteed;

Deplores the refusal of the Chilean authorities to allow the Ad Hoc Working Group to visit the country, notwithstanding previous solemn assurances given by the authorities in this regard, and urges them to honour these assurances;

Invites the Commission on Human Rights to extend the mandate of ,the Ad Hoc Working Group, as presently constituted, to enable it to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-füst session and to the Commission on Human Rights at its thirty-third session on the situation of human rights in Chile and, in particular, on any developments which occur to re-establish respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;

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

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