Development of public information activities in the field of human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1992
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SymbolA/RES/47/128
TitleDevelopment of public information activities in the field of human rights : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Urges the Secretariat to take measures to ensure the production and dissemination of human rights information materials, especially those on the basic UN human rights instruments and institutions, in national and local languages; requests the Secretary-General to ensure that recent periodic reports of States parties to treaty-monitoring bodies and the summary records of discussions be available in the UN information centres of the countries that have submmitted those reports; urges Member States to include in their educational curricula materials relevant to human rights issues; requests the Secretary-General to ensure effective deployment of the skills and resources of all concerned units of the Secretariat and to make available adequate funding for developing human rights information activities; calls upon the Centre for Human Rights to coordinate the substantive activities of the World Public Information Campaign for Human Rights; calls upon DPI to coordinate the public information activities of the Campaign and to promote coordinated system-wide information activities in the field of human rights; requests the Commission on Human Rights, at its 49th session, to consider the recommendation made by the 4th meeting of persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies that an expert group, from outside the Secretariat, be appointed to review the existing information programme of the Centre for Human Rights.
Action note1992-12-18
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 92nd meeting
Meeting record
A/47/PV.92
Agenda information
A/47/251 97b[19] HUMAN RIGHTS--PUBLIC INFORMATION
Date[New York] : UN, 1993.
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3 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 92nd plenary meeting, 18 Dec. 1992.