Indivisibility and Interdependence of Economic, Social, Cultural, Civil and Political Rights

A/RES/41/117View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97 International Covenants on Human Rights, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1986–1990

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/130

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/130	Indivisibility and interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/113	Indivisibility and interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/102	Indivisibility and interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights	836	67%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/117	Indivisibility and interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights	720	50%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/114	Indivisibility and interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights	789	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Civil and Political Rights Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Human Rights Advancement Information Dissemination Periodic Reports Treaties

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Appeals to ali States to pursue policies directed towards the implementation, promotion and protection of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights;

Calls upon ali States to co-operate in creating national and international conditions conducive to the enjoyment of ali human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to continue its consideration of the realization of economic, social and cultural rights and to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council, its views and recommendations on these human rights;

Welcomes the establishment by the Economic and Social Council ofthe Committee on Economic, Social and

Cultural Rights,76 which will be entrusted from 1987 on with the important task of overseeing the implementation of the Intemational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;

Urges the Secretary-General to take determined steps, within existing resources, to give publicity to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to ensure that it receives full administrative support in order to enable it to discharge its functions effectively;

Affirms the importance and relevance, to programmes and activities being undertaken throughout the United Nations system, of reports submitted by States parties to the Intemational Covenants on Human Rights to the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;

Decides to discuss at its forty-second session, under the item entitled "lntemational Covenants on Human Rights", the question ofthe indivisibility and interdependence of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

General Alllembly-Forty-ftnt Sealon

75 /bid., 1986 Supplement No. 2 (E/1986/22), chap. Xlll.

78 See United Nations Educational, Scientiflc and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Twenty-third Session,

vol. 1, Resolutions, sect. 111. 76 See Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 7" A/41/509. 77 See resolution 35/56, annex, sect. II.

Supplement 'Vo. 40 (A/41/40).

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