Efforts and Measures for Securing the Implementation and the Enjoyment by Youth of Human Rights, Particularly the Right to Education and to Work

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 86 Policies and programmes involving young people : participation, development, peace, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1981–1987

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1987	A/RES/41/98	Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work	1,856	9%Compare
1985	A/RES/40/15	Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work	432	61%Compare
1984	A/RES/39/23	Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work	486	—
1984	A/RES/38/23	Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work	—	—
1981	A/RES/36/29	Efforts and measures for securing the implementation and the enjoyment by youth of human rights, particularly the right to education and to work	471	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

International Years Right to Education Right to Work Unemployment Youth

What’s in this document?

38 operative paragraphs

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Welcoming the establishment, pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/17 of28 May 1985, of the Committee on Economk, Social and Cultural Rights to oversee the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

Noting with concern the critical situation with regard to delays in the submission of reports due \lnder the International Covenants on Human Rights,

Noting that 1986 marks the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultiiral Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

Takes note with appreciation ofthe report ofthe Human Rights Committee on its twenty-sixth, twentyseventh and twenty-eighth sessions, 80 and expresses its satisfaction with tbe serious and constructive manner in which the Cómmittee is continuing to undertake its functions;

Expresses its appreciation to the States parties to the lntemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that have submitted their reports to the Human Rights Committee under article 40 of the Covenant and urges States parties that have not yet done so to submi.l their reports as speedily as possible;

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Urges those States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that have been requested by the Human Rights Committee to provide additional information to comply with that request;

Commends the States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that have submitted their reports under article 16 ofthe Covenant and urges States that have not yet done so to submit their reports as soon as possible;

Notes with satisfaction that the majority of States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and an increasing number of States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, have been represented by experts for the presentation of their reports, thereby assisting the Human Rights Committee and the Economic and Social Council in their work, and hopes tlntt ali States parties to both Covenants will arrange such representation in the future;

Again urges ali States that have not yet done so to become parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil ánd PCllitical Rights, as well as to consider acceding to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

Invites the States parties to the litternational Cove- 1. nant on Civil and Political Rights to consider making the declaration provided for in article 41 of the Covenant;

Emphasizes the ithportance of the strictest compliance by States parties with their obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and, where applicable, the Optional Protocol to the lnternational Coverlant on Civil and Political Rights;

Stresses the importance of avoiding the erosion of human rights by derogation and underlines the necessity of strict observance of the agreed conditions and procedures for derogation; .. 10.

Recommends to States parties that they continuátly review whether any reservation made in respect of the provisions of the lnternational Covenants on Human Rights should be upheld;

Urges States parties to continue to pay active attention to the protection and promotion of civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights;

Urges States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the specialized agencies and other relevant United Nations bodies to extend their full support and co-operation to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Human Rights Committee informed ofthe relevant activities of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the Commission on Human Rights, the Sub- Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against W ornen, and also to transmit the annual reports ofthe Human Rights Committee to those bodies;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-second session a report on the status of the lnternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Política! Rights and the Optional Protocol to the lntemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

Again urges the Secretary-General, taking into account the suggestions ofthe Human Rights Committee, to take determined steps, within existing resources, to give more publicity to the work of the Committee and, similarly, to the work of the Economic and Social Council, to maintain satisfactory programmes of meetings and to improve the administrative and related arrangements to enable them to carry out effectively their respective functions under the Intemational Covenants on Human Rights;

Welcomes the progress already made with a view to the publication of the official public records of the Human Rights Committee in bound volumes and looks forward to further progress in this regard;

Encourages ali Govemments to publish the texts of the Intemational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol to the lntemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in as many languages as possible and to distribute them and make them known as widely as possible in their territories;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Centre for Human Rights ofthe Secretariat effectively assists the Human Rights Committee and the Economic and Social Council in the implementation of their respective functions under the International Covenants on Human Rights.

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Calls upon Member States and United Nations bodies to accord priority to the implementation of existing intemational standards in the field of human rights and urges broad ratification of, or accession to, existing treaties in this field;

Urges Member States and United Nations bodies engaged in developing new international human rights standards to give due consideration in this work to the established intemational legal framework;

Reaffirms the important role of the Commission on Human Rights, among other appropriate United Nations bodies, in the development of international instruments in the field of human rights;

Invites Member States and U nited Nations bodies to bear in mind the following guidelines in developing international instruments in the field of human rights; such instruments should, inter alia:

Be consistent with the existing body of international human rights law;

Be of fundamental character and derive from the inherent dignity and worth of the human person;

Be sufficiently precise to give rise to identifiable and practicable rights and obligations;

Provide, where appropriate, realistic and effective (d) implementation machinery, including reporting systems;

Attract broad international support;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide appropriate specialized support to United Nations bodies working on standard setting in the field of human rights.

41/121. Reporting obligations under United Nations instruments on human rights

Urges States parties with overdue reports to make every effort to present their reports as soon as possible and to take advantage of opportunities whereby such reports could be consolidated;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue work on developing a compilation of the general guidelines elaborated by the various supervisory bodies and the list of articles dealing with related rights under United Nations instruments on human rights;

Encourages States parties to take the relevant guidelines into account when preparing reports and to provide reports that are as succinct as possible;

Invites the Chairmen of the supervisory bodies to encourage their respective members:

To give priority attention to consideration of remedia) measures to deal with the problems highlighted in the Secretary-General's report;

To give further consideration to harmonizing and consolidating the reporting guidelines developed by these bodies and to other means whereby duplication could be avoided in the submission of material by States parties to the various supervisory bodies;

To consider rearranging, where possible, the periodicity of reporting, especially in view of the future probable increase in the number of instruments;

To report on the results oftheir deliberations to the appropriate meetings of States parties;

Further invites the Chairmen of these bodies to maintain communication and dialogue with each other on common issues and problems;

Requests the Secretary-General to consider making provision in his proposed programme budget for the biennium 1988-1989 for a meeting of the Chairmen of these bodies in 1988;

Invites the new Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights76 to give early attention to the question of the reporting system on implementation of the Interna-

82 See CERD/SP/SR.ló. para, .. '3 and 24.

81 A/41/510.

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