50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Encourages all Governments and other actors to undertake additional efforts to develop education and information programmes, with a view to disseminating the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and arriving at a better understanding thereof, and emphasizes in that regard the primary importance of grass-roots initiatives in promoting, through education and the media, a culture of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all; urges Governments to endorse and implement national programmes for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration; urges those Governments that have not yet ratified the international human rights treaties and protocols adopted within the framework of the UN system to consider doing so; invites the human rights treaty bodies to give appropriate attention to the 50th anniversary of the Declaration; invites Governments, the Secretariat, the Office of Communications and Public Information of the Secretariat, relevant organs and agencies of the UN system, within their respective mandates, including UNESCO, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations, to disseminate widely the Declaration, as well as other international instruments in the field of human rights.

Adopted without vote, 70th meeting

50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights : resolution.

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Adopted at the 70th plenary meeting, 12 Dec. 1997.