Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian-Pacific region.

1989/50. Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian-Pacific region

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling that the General Assembly in its resolutions 41/153 of 4 December 1986 and 43/140 of 8 December 1988 affirmed the value of regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian-Pacific region, Recalling also its own resolution 1988/73 of 10 March 1988, Recognizing that existing regional arrangements make a major contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights and that non-governmental organizations may have a valuable role to play in this process, Recognizing also the valuable contribution that could be made by national institutions in the field of human rights to the concept of regional arrangements, Bearing in mind that intergovernmental arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights have been established in other regions, Noting the value of the seminar on national, local and regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian region, held at Colombo in 1982 (A/37/422, annex), and the training course on human rights teaching held at Bangkok in 1987 under the United Nations programme of advisory services in the field of human rights (E/CN.4/1988/39/Add.1),

1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General (E/CN.4/1989/20);

2. Requests the Secretary-General to consult the countries of the Asian-Pacific region on the widest possible basis in the implementation of the present resolution;

3. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to assist and encourage the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in the establishment, within existing resources, of a depository centre for United Nations human rights materials within the Commission at Bangkok, the functions of which would include the collection, processing and dissemination of such materials in the Asian-Pacific region;

4. Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure a continuing flow of human rights materials to the library of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific at Bangkok for appropriate dissemination in the region;

5. Encourages United Nations development agencies in the Asian-Pacific region to co-ordinate with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific their efforts to promote the human rights dimension in their activities;

6. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a further report to the Commission at its forty-sixth session incorporating information on the progress achieved in the implementation of the present resolution;

7. Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its forty-sixth session under the agenda item "Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of the programme and methods of work of the Commission".

53rd meeting
7 March 1989
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XI.]
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