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Voluntary fund of the United Nations for victims of gross and flagrant violations of human rights.

Publisher UN General Assembly
Author UN General Assembly (35th sess. : 1980-1981)
Publication Date 15 December 1980
Citation / Document Symbol A/RES/35/190
Reference 35
Cite as UN General Assembly, Voluntary fund of the United Nations for victims of gross and flagrant violations of human rights., 15 December 1980, A/RES/35/190, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f02610.html [accessed 21 May 2013]

35. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
190. Voluntary fund of the United Nations for victims of gross and flagrant violations of human rights

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 33/174 of 20 December 1978 by which it established a United Nations Trust Fund for Chile as a voluntary fund to receive contributions and distribute humanitarian, legal and financial aid to persons whose human rights have been violated in Chile,

Recalling also its resolution 34/176 of 17 December 1979,

Noting that all Governments have an obligation to respect and promote human rights, in accordance with the responsibilities they have undertaken under various international instruments,

Noting with concern that gross and flagrant violations of human rights take place in various countries,

Considering the plight of victims of gross and flagrant human rights violations wherever they take place,

1. Decides to request the Commission on Human Rights to study, at its thirty-seventh session, the possibility of extending the mandate of the United Nations Trust Fund for Chile to receive voluntary contributions and further to study criteria for their distribution, through established channels of assistance, as humanitarian, legal and financial aid to persons, not covered by the mandate of other existing United Nations trust funds, whose human rights have been grossly and flagrantly violated, to those who have been forced to leave their countries as a result of gross and flagrant violations of their human rights and to relatives of persons in the above-mentioned categories, and to report thereon to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1981;

2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session recommendations concerning the extension of the mandate of the existing United Nations Trust Fund for Chile to become a United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Gross and Flagrant Violations of Human Rights.

96th plenary meeting
15 December 1980

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