Communications concerning human rights.

1983/39. Communications concerning human rights[1]89

The Commission on Human Rights, Bearing in mind those provisions prohibiting discrimination on grounds of sex in the Charter of the United Nations, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolutions 728 F (XXVIII) of 30 July 1959 and 1235 (XLII) of 6 June 1967, Bearing in mind the co-ordination function assigned to the Commission by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1979/36 of 10 May 1979, Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolutions 76 (V) of 5 August 1947 and 304 I (XI) of 17 July 1950 concerning the mandate of the Commission on the Status of Women to receive at each regular session a list of communications relating to the status of women, Taking note of paragraph 274 of the Programme of Action for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade for Women,[2]90 in which it was emphasized that the ability of the Commission on the Status of Women to consider communications should be improved, Noting in particular the resolution adopted on 4 March 1982 by the Commission on the Status of Women[3]91 in which that Commission reaffirmed its desire to continue to consider communications on the status of women and made proposals to that effect to the Economic and Social Council,[4]92 Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/39 of 2 May 1980 and Economic and Social Council decision 1982/122 of 4 May 1982 by which the Commission was requested to submit to the Council its views on how communications relating to the status of women should be handled, taking into account its own procedures,

1. Decides, pursuant to the request of the Economic and Social Council, to submit the following views for consideration by the Council:

(a) Implementation in the Commission on the Status of Women of a procedure for considering communications concerning the status of women, such as that provided for in draft resolution X contained in the report of the Commission on the Status of Women,[5]93 would be a useful complement to the procedures established in the Commission on Human Rights for the consideration of communications concerning violations of human rights;

(b) In implementing such a procedure, efforts should be made to encourage co-ordination between the various organs of the United Nations which are in receipt of communications, and to avoid unnecessary duplication;

(c) The Commission on Human Rights should continue to receive and deal with all communications concerning all violations of human rights. For its part, the Commission on the Status of Women, in implementing its mandate, could, on the basis of those communications which specifically affect the status of women, submit recommendations to the Council on those issues relating to the rights of women;

2. Declares its readiness to continue to co-operate with the Commission on the Status of Women with a view to ensuring co-ordination of communications procedures as they relate to the status of women, so as to enable the Commission on the Status of Women fully to execute its specific mandate.



[1]89 Adopted at the 53rd meeting, on 9 March 1983, by a roll-call vote of 30 to 4, with 8 abstentions. See chap. XXII. [2]90 See Report of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Copenhagen, 14-30 July 1980 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.80.IV.3 and corrigendum), chap. I, sect. A. [3]91 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1982, Supplement No. 4 (E/1982/14), chap. V, para. 115. [4]92 Ibid., chap. I, draft resolution X. [5]93 Ibid.
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