Effective Implementation of International Instruments on Human Rights, Including Reporting Obligations Under International Instruments on Human Rights

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 100aImplementation of human rights instruments, published in 1994.

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12 versions · 1990–2003

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Welcomes the submission of the report of the fifth meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies, and takes note of the conclusions and recommendations in the report; 2/

Welcomes also the continuing efforts by the treaty bodies and the Secretary-General, within their respective spheres of competence, aimed at streamlining, rationalizing and otherwise improving reporting procedures;

Again urges States parties to make every effort to meet their reporting obligations and to contribute, individually and through meetings of States parties, to identifying and implementing ways of further streamlining and improving reporting procedures;

Urges the treaty bodies to examine ways of reducing the duplication of reporting required under the different instruments and of generally reducing the reporting burden on Member States, including through:

Identifying where cross-referencing can be used in report writing;

Recommending, where appropriate, the designation of specific national administrative units to coordinate reports to all treaty bodies;

Establishing coordination between the treaty bodies and the International Labour Organization to identify overlap between respective instruments and conventions;

Considering the utility of single comprehensive reports and of replacing periodic reports with specifically tailored reports and thematic reports;

Welcomes the emphasis placed by the meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies and by the Commission on Human Rights on the importance of technical assistance and advisory services and, further to this end:

Requests that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report regularly to the Commission on possible technical assistance projects identified by the treaty bodies;

Invites the treaty bodies to give priority attention to identifying such possibilities in the regular course of their work of reviewing the periodic reports of States parties;

Invites States parties that have been unable to comply with the requirements to submit their initial report to avail themselves of technical assistance;

Urges States parties to address, as a matter of priority, at their next scheduled meetings, the issue of States parties consistently not complying with their reporting obligations;

Urges all States parties whose reports have been examined by treaty bodies to provide adequate follow-up to the observations and final comments of the treaty bodies on their reports;

Invites the specialized agencies and other United Nations bodies and the human rights treaty bodies to develop effective means for further cooperation between them, bearing in mind the responsibilities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;

Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to consult the human rights treaty bodies in relation to his efforts to promote cooperation with regional intergovernmental organizations for the promotion and protection of human rights;

Welcomes the emphasis by the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on the need for the enjoyment of the human rights of women to be closely monitored by each treaty body within the competence of its mandate, and endorses the recommendation by the chairpersons that each treaty body consider amending its reporting guidelines to request gender-specific information from States parties;

Recognizes the important role played by non-governmental organizations in the effective implementation of all human rights instruments;

Endorses the recommendations of the meetings of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on the need to ensure financing and adequate staffing resources for the operations of the treaty bodies and, with this in mind:

Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General provide adequate resources in relation to the various treaty bodies;

Requests that the Secretary-General report on this question to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-first session and to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session;

Urges States parties to notify the Secretary-General, as depository of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, of their acceptance of the amendments approved by the States parties, and by the General Assembly in its resolution 48/120;

Calls upon all States parties to fulfil without delay and in full their financial obligations, including their arrears, under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment until the amendments enter into force;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take the necessary measures to ensure that the two committees established under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment meet as scheduled until the amendments enter into force;

Takes note of the recommendation by the meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies that the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women should be allocated additional meeting time until the backlog of pending reports has been eliminated, and that the Secretary-General should allocate sufficient resources from the existing regular budget of the United Nations to the Committee;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, acting within his mandate as set out in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, to ensure the preparation of an inventory of all international human rights standard-setting activities from within existing resources, in order to facilitate better-informed decision-making;

Welcomes the recommendation by the meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies that treaty bodies should urge the States parties to translate, publish and make available to the media the full text of the concluding observations on their reports to the treaty-monitoring bodies, and requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that recent reports and the summary records of committee discussions pertaining to them, as well as concluding observations and final comments of the treaty bodies, are made available in the United Nations information centres in the countries submitting those reports;

Invites the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to publish at the end of each year, from within existing resources, as a separate volume, a compilation of all concluding observations adopted during that year by treaty bodies;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure, from within existing resources, that the United Nations Manual on Human Rights Reporting is available in all official languages at the earliest opportunity and that due regard is paid to the recommendations concerning the Manual made by the fifth meeting of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies;

Welcomes all appropriate measures the human rights treaty bodies may take, within their mandates, in response to situations of massive human rights violations, including bringing those violations to the attention of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as the Secretary-General and the competent bodies of the United Nations in the field of human rights, and requests the High Commissioner, acting within his mandate, to coordinate and consult throughout the United Nations system in this regard;

Requests the Secretary-General to take the appropriate steps in order to finance, as of 1995, annual meetings of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies from the available resources of the regular budget of the United Nations;

Decides to continue giving priority consideration, at its fiftieth session, to the conclusions and recommendations of the meetings of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies, in the light of the deliberations of the Commission on Human Rights, under the item entitled "Human rights questions".

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