Staff members of the United Nations and of the specialized agencies in detention.
- Author: UN Commission on Human Rights (48th sess. : 1992 : Geneva)
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Date:
28 February 1992
1992/26.
Staff members of the United Nations and of the specialized agencies in detention
1. Welcomes the statement by the Secretary-General on 22 January 1992, in which be stressed his deep concern that over one hundred staff members were being kept under detention or were in prison and declared his intention to do the utmost to work for their release;
2. Appeals again to Member States to respect and to ensure respect for the rights of staff members and others acting under the authority of the United Nations, and their families;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to ensure that the human rights, privileges and immunities of United Nations staff members, experts and their families are fully respected and to seek redress and compensation for the damage caused to those whose human rights, privileges and immunities have been violated, as well as their full reintegration;
4. Urges Member States, in accordance with the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment (General Assembly resolution 43/173 , annex), to provide adequate and prompt information concerning the arrest or detention of United Nations staff members, experts and their families, and to grant the representative of the competent international organization access to them without delay;
5. Also urges Member States to allow medical teams to investigate the health of staff members, experts and their families who are being detained in order to provide them with the necessary medical assistance;
6. Calls upon Member States to allow the representative of the competent international organization to attend any hearing concerning United Nations staff members, experts and their families;
7. Requests once again the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its forty-ninth session an updated version of the report on the situation of United Nations staff members, experts and their families detained, imprisoned, missing or held in a country against their will, including those cases which have been successfully settled since the submission of the last report, as well as on the implementation of the measures referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the present resolution.
47th meeting28 February 1992
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. X.]
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