Petitions and communications from Mr. Johanes Dausab and others, Chief Hosea Kutako, Mr. Wilhelm Heyn and Dr. Joachim Seegert, and Mr. Jacobus Beukes concerning the Territory of South West Africa

UN General Assembly, Petitions and communications from Mr. Johanes Dausab and others, Chief Hosea Kutako, Mr. Wilhelm Heyn and Dr. Joachim Seegert, and Mr. Jacobus Beukes concerning the Territory of South West Africa, A/RES/1139, UN General Assembly, 25 October 1957, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1957/en/10292 [accessed 08 December 2024]
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XII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FOURTH COMMITTEE
1139. Petitions and communications from Mr. Johanes Dausab and others, Chief Hosea Kutako, Mr. Wilhelm Heyn and Dr. Joachim Seegert, and Mr. Jacobus Beukes concerning the Territory of South West Africa

The General Assembly, Having accepted the advisory opinion of 11 July 1950 of the International Court of Justice on the question of South West Africa,[1] Having authorized the Committee on South West Africa, by resolution 749 A (VIII) of 28 November 1953, to examine petitions in accordance with the Mandates procedure of the League of Nations, Having received a report from the Committee on South West Africa,[2] arrived at without the assistance of the Mandatory Power, dealing with a petition dated 10 October 1956 from Mr. Johanes Dausab and others in the Hoachanas Native Reserve[3] a petition dated 30 October 1956 and related communications dated 28 May and 26 June 1957 from Chief Hosea Kutako,[4] a petition dated 3 January 1957 and a related communication dated 16 March 1957 from Mr. Wilhelm Heyn and Dr. Joachim Seegert,[5] and a petition dated 27 March 1957 from Mr. Jacobus Beukes of the Rehoboth Community,[6] Noting that these petitions and communications raise questions relating to various aspects of the administration of the Territory of South West Africa and of conditions in the Territory upon which the Committee has presented a report, Decides to draw the attention of the petitioners to the report and observations of the Committee on South West Africa regarding conditions in the Territory, submitted to the General Assembly at its twelfth session, and to the action taken by the Assembly on this report. 709th plenary meeting,
25 October 1957.
[1] International status of South-West Africa, Advisory Opinion: I.C.J. Reports 1950, p. 128. [2] Ibid., Supplement No. 12 (A/3626), chapter VI, sections B and C. [3] Ibid., Supplement No. 12 (A/3626), annex IX. [4] Ibid., annex X. [5] Ibid., annex XI. [6] Ibid., annex XII.
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