Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

1992/29.
Declaration on the protection of all Persons from enforced disappearance

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling General Assembly resolution 33/173 of 20 December 1978, Convinced of the need for States to give effect to measures to prevent and punish acts of enforced disappearance, Recalling its decision 1986/106 of 13 March 1986, by which it invited the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to reconsider the question of a declaration against unacknowledged detention of persons, Again thanking the Working Group on Detention of the Sub-Commission for its efforts to complete the draft declaration and transmit it to the Commission, Recalling also its resolution 1991/41 of 5 March 1991, in which it established an open-ended inter-sessional working group to consider the draft declaration submitted by the Sub-Commission with a view to its adoption by the Commission at its forty-eighth session, Having considered the final report of the Working Group on the Declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance (E/CN.4/1992/19/Rev.1), including the annex thereto,

1. Expresses its appreciation to the Working Group on the Declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance for the work it has done;

2. Approves the draft declaration submitted by the Working Group;

3. Decides to transmit the draft declaration to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session, through the Economic and Social Council;

4. Recommends that, after adoption by the General Assembly, the full text of the Declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance should be disseminated as widely as possible;

5. Recommends the following draft resolution to the Economic and Social Council for adoption:

[For the text, see chap. I, sect. A, draft resolution III.]

47th meeting
28 February 1992
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. X.]