Alternative Approaches and Ways and Means Within the United Nations System for Improving the Effective Enjoyment of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

A/RES/49/186No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1995.

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19 versions · 1976–1995

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Civil and Political Rights Conferences Declarations Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Human Rights Human Rights Advancement International Security Right to Development Sovereignty Work Organization

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Reiterates its request that the Commission on Human Rights continue its current work on overall analysis with a view to further promoting and strengthening human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of the programme and working methods of the Commission, and on the overall analysis of the alternative approaches and ways and means for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the provisions and ideas set forth in General Assembly resolution 32/130;

Affirms that a primary aim of international cooperation in the field of human rights is a life of freedom, dignity and peace for all peoples and for every human being, that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are indivisible and interrelated and that the promotion and protection of one category of rights should never exempt or excuse States from promoting and protecting the others;

Notes that the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, identified the situations and obstacles which affect the full enjoyment of human rights;

Reaffirms that the right to development is an inalienable human right;

Reaffirms also that international peace and security are essential elements for achieving the full realization of the right to development;

Considers it necessary for all Member States to promote international cooperation on the basis of respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of each State, including the right of every people to choose freely its own socio-economic and political system, with a view to solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems;

Urges all States to cooperate with the Commission on Human Rights in the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Decides that the approaches to future work within the United Nations system on human rights matters should take into account the content of the Declaration on the Right to Development and the need for the implementation thereof;

Decides to consider this question at its fifty-first session.

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