Voluntary Fund for Advisory Services and Technical Assistance in the Field of Human Rights.

1987/38. Voluntary fund for advisory services and technical assistance in the field of human rights

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling General Assembly resolutions in which the Assembly has requested the Commission on Human Rights, when considering the item entitled "Advisory services in the field of human rights", to pay special attention to the most appropriate ways of assisting, at their request, the countries of the different regions under the programme of advisory services and to make, where necessary, the relevant recommendations, Recalling further its resolution 1986/52 of 13 March 1986, in which it requested the Secretary-General to report to the Commission at its forty-third session on the progress made in the implementation of the programme of advisory services in the field of human rights and to submit relevant information on the possible role of an eventual trust fund on advisory services in the field of human rights and, if it were established, the manner in which it could function, Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General submitted in pursuance of that resolution (E/CN.4/1987/33 and Add.1, Add.1/Corr.1 and Add.2),

1. Requests the Secretary-General to establish and administer in accordance with the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations a voluntary fund for advisory services and technical assistance in the field of human rights;

2. Emphasizes that the objective of the trust fund is to provide additional financial support for practical activities focused on the implementation of international conventions and other international instruments on human rights promulgated by the United Nations, its specialized agencies or regional organizations;

3. Authorizes the Secretary-General to receive voluntary contributions to the fund from Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals in a position to make such contributions, and further authorizes the Secretary-General to solicit contributions or to make such representations or appeals for contributions as he deems appropriate;

4. Calls upon all Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals to consider making voluntary contributions for the implementation of projects within the programme of the trust fund;

5. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on Human Rights annually on the operation and administration of the trust fund as part of his annual report on advisory services in the field of human rights;

6. Further requests the Secretary-General to bring regularly to the attention of all Governments and of the competent human rights organs possibilities that exist under the trust fund to provide advisory services and technical assistance to Governments at their request;

7. Encourages Governments in need of technical assistance in the field of human rights to avail themselves of the advisory services of experts in the field of human rights;

8. Expresses its appreciation to all Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations which have provided assistance to States which indicated their need for technical assistance in the field of human rights

54th meeting
10 March 1987
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XXI.]