Draft International Covenant on Human rights and measures of implementation: future work of the Commission on Human Rights

V. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
421. Draft International Covenant on Human rights and measures of implementation: future work of the Commission on Human Rights

A

1. Commends the Commission on Human Rights for the important work it has thus far accomplished;

2. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to continue to give priority in its work to the completion of the draft Covenant and measures for its implementation in order that the General Assembly may have before it at its sixth session the revised draft of this Covenant;

B

3. Considers:

(a) That the list of rights in the first eighteen articles of the draft Covenant does not contain certain of the most elementary rights;

(b) That the present wording of some of the first eighteen articles of the draft Covenant should be improved in order to protect more effectively the rights to which they refer;

(c) That in the drafting of the Covenant account should be taken of the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations and that these Purposes and Principles should be consistently applied and assiduously protected;

4. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to take into consideration in its work of revision of the draft Covenant:

(i) The views expressed during the discussion of the draft Covenant at the fifth session of the General Assembly and at the eleventh session of the Economic and Social Council, including those relating to articles 13 and 14 of the draft Covenant and, with a view to the addition in the draft Covenant of other rights, those relating to the rights set forth by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in document A/C.3/L.96 and Yugoslavia in document A/C.3/L.92;

(ii) The view, expressed during the discussion of the draft Covenant at the fifth session of the General Assembly and at the eleventh session of the Economic and Social Council, that it is desirable to define the rights set forth in the Covenant and the limitations thereto with the greatest possible precision;

C

5. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to study a federal State article and to prepare, for the consideration of the General Assembly at its sixth session, recommendations which will have as their purpose the securing of the maximum extension of the Covenant to the constituent units of federal States, and the meeting of the constitutional problems of federal States;

D

6. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to study ways and means which would ensure the right of peoples and nations to self-determination, and to prepare recommendations for consideration by the General Assembly at its sixth session;

E

7.

(a) Decides to include in the Covenant on Human Rights economic, social and cultural rights and an explicit recognition of equality of men and women in related rights, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations;

(b) Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights, in accordance with the spirit of the Universal Declaration, to include in the draft Covenant a clear expression of economic, social and cultural rights in a manner which relates them to the civic and political freedoms proclaimed by the draft Covenant;

(c) Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to take such steps as are necessary to obtain the co-operation of other organs of the United Nations and of the specialized agencies in the consideration of such rights;

(d) Requests the Economic and Social Council to consider, at its twelfth session, the methods by which the specialized agencies might co-operate with the Commission on Human Rights with regard to economic, social and cultural rights;

F

8. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to proceed with the consideration of provisions, to be inserted in the draft Covenant or in separate protocols, for the receipt and examination of petitions from individuals and organizations with respect to alleged violations of the Covenant; and to take into consideration in its studies of questions relating to petitions and implementation the proposals presented by Chile (A/C.3/L.81), Ethiopia and France (A/C.3/L.78), Israel (A/C.3/L.91/Rev.1) and Uruguay (A/C.3/ L.93);

G

9. Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to request the Commission on Human Rights to report to the Economic and Social Council at its thirteenth session concerning the above matters;

H

10. Requests the Secretary-General to invite Member States to submit, by 15 February 1951, their views concerning the draft Covenant as revised by the Commission on Human Rights at its sixth session, in order that the Commission may have such views before it during its further consideration of the draft Covenant at its seventh session.