Development of Public Information Activities in the Field of Human Rights

A/RES/41/130View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 101 Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations System for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1986–1995

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/49/187

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1995	A/RES/49/187	Development of public information activities in the field of human rights	1,095	31%Compare
1993	A/RES/47/128	Development of public information activities in the field of human rights	1,127	—
1991	A/RES/45/99	Development of public information activities in the field of human rights	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/61	Development of public information activities in the field of human rights	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/128	Development of public information activities in the field of human rights	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Audiovisual Materials Declarations Focal Points Human Rights Human Rights Education Information Centres Information Dissemination Languages Mass Media Public Information Reference Materials Teaching Materials Treaties

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the development of public information activities in the field of human rights;ll2 2.

Requests ali Member States to publicize and to facilitate and encourage publicity for the activities of the United Nations in the field ofhuman rights and to accord priority to the dissemination, in their respective national and local languages, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Intemational Covenants on Human Rights and other intemational conventions;

Emphasizes the need to make available United Nations materials on human rights in simplified, attractive and accessible form, in national and local languages, and to make effective use of the mass media and new audiovisual technologies to reach a wider audience, with priority given to children, other young people and the disadvantaged, especially those in isolated areas;

Calls upon ali relevant bodies ofthe United Nations system, including the specialized agencies and the regional commissions, as well as Member States and nongovemmental organizations, to assist further in the dissemination of United Nations materials on human rights;

Recommends that ali Member States include in their educational curricula materials relevant to a comprehensive understanding of human rights issues;

Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to finalize work on a draft teaching booklet on basic human rights, taking into account any comments that may have been offered by Govemments, and to draw the attention of Member States to this document, which could serve as a broad and flexible framework within which teaching could be structured and developed in accordance with national circumstances;

Requests the Secretary-General to complete as soon as possible the task of issuing the personalized version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the six official languages ofthe United Nations and to proceed thereafter, in co-operation with regional organizations and Govemments, to the production of this document in national and local languages;

Invites Member States to consider nominating national focal points to which the Secretary-General could supply copies of relevant human rights materials to complement the existing means by which such materials are disseminated;

Requests the Secretary-General to expedite work, within available resources, on building up collections of reference works and United Nations materials at each United Nations information centre, taking into account the list ofbasic reference works on human rights prepared by the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General to make available, from the existing budget of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, appropriate funding for public information activities in the field of human rights, and to ensure that adequate arrangements are made for the storage and distribution of United Nations public information materials in this field;

Requests the Secretary-General to arrange for the reprinting as soon as practicable ofthe publication entitled Human Rights: A Compilation of lnternational lnstruments; 113 12.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit, in bis report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fortythird session, information on the implementation of the present resolution, including a status report on the availability, in the official languages and in other languages, of the principal international instruments in the field of human rights and an assessment of the activities of the United Nations information centres in this field;

Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its forty-second session under the ítem entitled "Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms".

112 E/CN.4/1986/20 and Add.1-3 113 Uni1ed Nation, pubhcation, Sales No. E.83.XIV. l.

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