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Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Developments

A/RES/36/56[A]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 85 Human rights and scientific and technological developments, published in 1981.

What else is in this group?

25 documents · 1969–1991
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1991).
YearSymbolTitleWord lengthText similarity
1991
A/RES/45/93

Human rights and scientific and technological developments

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1991
A/RES/45/92

Human rights and scientific and technological developments

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1990
A/RES/44/134

Human rights and scientific and technological developments

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1990
A/RES/44/133

Human rights and scientific and technological developments

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1989
A/RES/43/110

Human rights and scientific and technological developments

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This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects
Cultural DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentHuman RightsScience and TechnologySocial DevelopmentSpecialized Agencies

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

A/RES/36/56 [A]

A

Stresses the importance of the implementation by all States of the provisions and principles contained in the Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind in order to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms under conditions of scientific and technological progress;
2
Calls upon all States to make every effort to use the achievements of science and technology in order to promote peaceful social, economic and cultural development and progress;
"See also sect. X.B.4, decision 36/413.
9 A/36/429 and Add. I and 2.
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Requests the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system to take into account in their programmes and activities the provisions of the Declaration;
4
Invites those Member States, specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system that have not yet done so to submit their information in accordance with General Assembly resolution 35/ l 30 A of 11 December 1980;
5
Requests the Commission on Human Rights to give special attention, in its consideration of the item entitled "Human rights and scientific and technological developments", to the question of the implementation of the provisions of the Declaration;
6
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "Human rights and scientific and technological developments··.
7 3rd plenary meeting
25 November 1981

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