Question of a draft Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

1993/92. Question of a draft declaration on the right and responsibility of individuals, groups and organs of society to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling its decision 1984/116 of 16 March 1984, by which it established an open-ended working group to draft a declaration on the right and responsibility of individuals, groups and organs of society to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, Recalling also its subsequent resolutions, in particular resolution 1992/82 of 6 March 1992, in which it authorized further meetings of the working group and noted the progress it had achieved, Conscious of the importance of taking into account the opinions of all States and of interested intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, before finalizing the draft declaration, Noting with satisfaction the progress made by the open-ended working group during its meetings prior to and during the forty-ninth session of the Commission,

1. Takes note of the report of the working group (E/CN.4/1993/64);

2. Urges the working group to make every effort to complete its task and submit the draft declaration to the Commission at its fiftieth session;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to circulate the report, including the first reading text, to the Governments of all States Members of the United Nations and members of competent specialized agencies, and to interested intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, with an invitation to submit written comments on the first reading text (E/CN.4/1993/64, annex I) for consideration by the working group at its next session;

4. Decides to continue at its fiftieth session its work on the elaboration of the draft declaration;

5. Also decides to make available appropriate meeting time for the working group prior to and during the fiftieth session of the Commission;

6. Recommends the following draft resolution to the Economic and Social Council for adoption:

[For the text, see chap. I, sect. A, draft resolution IV.]

67th meeting
10 March 1993
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XXIII.]