Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of the programme and methods of work of the Commission; alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

26 (XXXIV). Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of the programme and methods of work of the Commission; alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms[1]29

1. Decides to continue at its thirty-fifth session, as a matter of priority, the work on the over-all analysis of the alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the light of the concepts contained in General Assembly resolution 32/130 ;

2. Considers it advisable to set up an open-ended working group which will meet for a week immediately before the thirty-fifth session of the Commission to undertake the necessary work relating to this analysis and report to the Commission with its conclusions and recommendations;

3. Requests the Secretary-General:

(a) To invite the specialized agencies concerned and the United Nations organs in the field of human rights to supply information on those measures, within their respective areas of competence, already taken or to be taken in the future, which would translate the concepts of General Assembly resolution 32/130 into practical terms;

(b) To circulate the report of the Commission on the work done on agenda item 11 at its thirty-fourth session to Member States, specialized agencies, other organs within the United Nations system and the relevant non-governmental organizations and to invite their comments thereon, for submission by 31 October 1978;

(c) To prepare, in time for the meeting of the working group referred to in paragraph 2 above, reports which would include:

(i) The information supplied under subparagraph (a) above;

(ii) Information relating to the work programmes, schedules and terms of reference of United Nations bodies concerned with human rights, other than the Commission on Human Rights, over which the Economic and Social Council has jurisdiction;

(iii) The views, suggestions and proposals expressed or submitted at the thirty-fourth session of the Commission in relation both to the mandate of the working group set up under Commission decision 4 (XXXIII) and to the over-all analysis asked for by the General Assembly in resolution 32/130;

(iv) All appropriate documents transmitted to the Commission at its thirty-fourth session;

4. Recommends to the Economic and Social Council the following draft decision:

[For the text see chap. I, sect. B, draft decision 1.]

5. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution and the relevant chapter of the report of the Commission on its thirty-fourth session to the notice of the General Assembly.