Human Rights and Use of Scientific and Technological Developments

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99 Human rights and scientific and technological developments, published in 1988.

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5 versions · 1984–1988

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1988	A/RES/42/99	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	825	66%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/113	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	649	55%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/111	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	953	87%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/134	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	892	76%Compare
1984	A/RES/38/113	Human rights and use of scientific and technological developments	765	–

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5 subjects

Disarmament Human Rights Right to Life Science and Technology War Propaganda

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7 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that all peoples and all individuals have an inherent right to life and that the safeguarding of this cardinal right is an essential condition for the enjoyment of the entire range of economic, social and cultural, as well as civil and political, rights;

Stresses once again the urgent need for the international community to make every effort to strengthen peace, remove the growing threat of war, particularly nuclear war, halt the arms race and achieve general and complete disarmamant under effective international control and prevent violations of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations regarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States and the self-determination of peoples, thus contributing to ensuring the right to life;

Stresses further the foremost importance of the implementation of practical measures of disarmament to bring an end to the waste of valuable resources and to streamline them to fight economic backwardness and poverty and to accelerate social and economic progress, particularly for the benefit of developing countries;

Calls upon all States, appropriate United Nations bodies, the specialized agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned to take the necessary measures to ensure that the results of scientific and technological progress, the material and intellectual potential of mankind, are used to solve global problems exclusively in the interests of international peace, for the benefit of mankind and for promoting and encouraging universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Stresses that a world without nuclear weapons and violence would open vast opportunities for the joint efforts of all nations aimed at solving urgent humanitarian problems and at co-operating in the areas of science, education, medicine, arts and others, thus guaranteeing the necessary conditions for the harmonious development of the individual;

Again calls upon all States that have not yet done so to take effective measures with a view to prohibiting, in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, any propaganda for war, in particular the formulation, propounding and dissemination of and propaganda for doctrines and concepts aimed at unleashing nuclear war;

Looks forward to further efforts by the Commission on Human Rights to ensure the inherent right of all peoples and all individuals to life;

Decides to consider this question at its forty-third 8. session under the item entitled "Human rights and scientific and technological developments".

81 See E/CN.4/1988/37-E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/42 and Corr.I, chap. II, sect. A.

E/CN.4/Sub.2/1983/17.

82 80 Resolution 37 /194, annex.

Resolution 2734 (XXV).

84 Resolution 3384 (XXX). 85 Resolution 39/11, annex.

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