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Protection of Human Rights of Certain Categories of Prisoners

A/RES/35/189No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1981.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
Detained PersonsHuman RightsPolitical PrisonersPrisoner TreatmentTrade Union Activists

What does this mandate say?

2 operative paragraphs
1
Recognizes that the arrest and detention, in many parts of the world, of numerous persons on the abovementioned grounds often give rise to serious human rights problems and that effective measures should be taken to eliminate these problems;
2
Reiterates. therefore, the requests to Member States in General Assembly resolutions 32/121 and 3 3 / 169 regarding the release of such persons and the assurance that their fundamental human rights are protected during their arrest or detention.

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