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Human Rights and Mass Exoduses

A/RES/38/103No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1984.

What other versions does this mandate have?

16 versions · 1983–2004
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/169
  • 2004A/RES/58/169Human rights and mass exodusesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2002A/RES/56/166Human rights and mass exodusesCompare with previous version
  • 2000A/RES/54/180Human rights and mass exodusesCompare with previous version
  • 1998A/RES/52/132Human rights and mass exodusesCompare with previous version
  • 1996A/RES/50/182Human rights and mass exodusesCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
Human RightsInternational CooperationMass ExodusesRefugee Assistance

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
3
Requests thosc Govcrnmcnts that havc not yct done so to communicate to the Secretary-Cicneral their opinions on the study prepared by the Spccial Rapporteur and the recommendations made therein with a vicw to the General Assembly taking a dccision on !hose rccommendations:
4
Notes the Sccretary-General's rcqucst to the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system to make recommendations and to takc whatcvcr stcps possible, within their mandatcs and cxisting resourccs. to improve international co-operation rn thesc lields:
5
Cnnsiders it dcsirah/c for thc Sccretarv-Gcneral to utilize to thc grcatcst extcnt possiblc relc~ant United Nations machinery to analysc promptly information on situations which might cause mass cxoduses;
6
Notes with inlcrcst that the Secrctary-General has on many occasions dcsignated special representatives on humanitarian issues on an ad hoc basis. and his rcadiness to continuc ami expand this practicc:
7
Rcquests thc Secretary-Gencral to follow closely developments on this qucstion. to take into consideration ali the furthcr comments of Member States. including those expressed at the th irty-cighth session of the General Assembly and at the forticth session or the Commission on Human Rights. and to kcep undcr rcvicw thc recommcndations of the Special Rapportcur:
8
Rccalls that, in its rcsolution 36/ 148, the General Assembly requested the Uroup of Govcrnmental Experts on Intemational Co-operation to A vert New Flows of Refugees to undcrtake a comprehcnsivc rcvicw ofthc problcm of massive flows of rcfugees and. in accordancc with paragraph 7 of that resolution, invitcd the Group of Governmental Experts to consider the rccommcndations of the Special Rapportcur which fall within its mandatc:
9
Decides to considcr thc question of human rights and mass exoduses at its thirt) -ninlh sc~sion.
/()11/h plcnary meeting I (1 Dffcmhcr 1983 Re~nlutions adopted on the report, of the Third Commitlt't'

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