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

UN Commission on Human Rights, 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, E/CN.4/RES/1987/108, 11 March 1987, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unchr/1987/en/29266 [accessed 13 June 2025]
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1987/108. 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

At its 56th meeting, on 11 March 1987, the Commission, considering the invitations of the Secretary-General to provide comments on priorities, innovations and curtailments/redeployment to assist him in the preparation of the draft medium-term plan for the United Nations for 1990-1995 and to submit views and proposals to the Special Commission of the Economic and Social Council on achieving the objectives envisaged in recommendation 8 of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations (A/41/49), decided, without a vote, that:

(a) Due note should be taken of the statement of the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at its opening meeting and of the summary records of its debate on agenda item 11 and any other pertinent remarks made during the debates at the forty-third session in the preparation of the draft medium-term plan for 1990-1995;

(b) The above-mentioned material should also be transmitted, in accordance with rules 29 and 31 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, to the Special Commission of the Economic and Social Council for consideration in the course of its work;

(c) It should accord special attention to the questions of priority setting, programme planning, budgeting and resources at its forty-fourth session;

(d) Sufficient time should be accorded at its forty-fourth session to debate on agenda item 11 to allow these questions to be discussed fully on the basis of documentation, including the draft medium-term plan, which should be distributed in good time.

[See chap. XI.]
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