Traditional practices affecting the health of women and children

1992/109.
Traditional practices affecting the health of women and children

At its 48th meeting, on 28 February 1992, the Commission, taking note of Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities resolution 1991/23 of 29 August 1991, decided, without a vote, to approve the recommendations of the Sub-Commission that:

(a) The subject of harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and children be maintained on the agenda of the Sub-Commission in so far as they constituted violations of human rights within the meaning of the relevant provisions of the International Bill of Human Rights and many other international instruments, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

(b) The mandate of the Special Rapporteur be extended for two years so as to enable her to submit to the Sub-Commission at its forty-fifth session a plan of action for the elimination of harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and children, and a report on the regional seminar to take place in Asia;

(c) The Centre for Human Rights provide a full-time Professional staff member to follow up the question of traditional practices affecting the health of women and children and to liaise with Governments, United Nations bodies and regional commissions, non-governmental organizations and other concerned institutions, with special emphasis on gathering data from the many organizations currently working to eliminate harmful traditional practices;

(d) The Centre for Human Rights provide all the assistance that the Special Rapporteur might require in the exercise of the mandate entrusted to her in Sub-Commission resolution 1991/23.

[See chap. XVII.]