Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Asian-Pacific region.
- Author: UN Commission on Human Rights (46th sess. : 1990 : Geneva)
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7 March 1990
1990/71. 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 resolutions 1988/73 of 10 March 1988 and 1989/50 of 7 March 1989, Noting Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific resolution 45/2 of 5 April 1989, Recognizing 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 of 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.4/1990/18 and Add.1);
2. Welcomes the designation of the library of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific as a depository centre for United Nations human rights materials, the functions of which would include the collection, processing and dissemination of such materials in the Asian-Pacific region;
3. 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 for appropriate dissemination in the Asian-Pacific region;
4. 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;
5. Takes note that an Asian-Pacific regional workshop on various human rights issues, including regional and national institutions and arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, will be held in Manila in early 1990, within the framework of the advisory services and technical assistance programme and the World Public Information Campaign for Human Rights (see E/CN.4/1990/18, para. 7);
6. 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;
7. Requests also the Secretary-General to submit a further report to the Commission at its forty-seventh session, incorporating information on the progress achieved in the implementation of the present resolution;
8. Decides to continue its consideration of the question at its forty-seventh 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 meeting7 March 1990
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XI.]
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