Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improvement of the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

  • Author: UN General Assembly (34th sess. : 1979-1980)
  • Document source:
    UN General Assembly
  • Date:
    23 November 1979
UN General Assembly (34th sess. : 1979-1980), Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improvement of the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms., A/RES/34/48, UN General Assembly, 23 November 1979, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1979/en/7338 [accessed 17 June 2025]
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34. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
48. Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for the improvement of the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

The General Assembly, Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations under Article 1 of the Charter is to promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,[1] Bearing in mind its resolution 33/105 of 16 December 1978, in which it requested the Commission on Human Rights to take into account, in continuing its work on the over-all analysis of the United Nations approach to human rights, the views expressed on the various proposals during the general debate on the item at the thirty-second and thirty-third sessions of the General Assembly, including a post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Considering that the Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights was nevertheless unable, in its consideration of the over-all analysis[2] to make a thorough evaluation of the proposal to create a post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Decides to consider at its thirty-fifth session the question of the creation of a post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights under the item entitled "Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms". 76th plenary meeting
23 November 1979
[1] Resolution 217 A (III). [2] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1979, Supplement No. 6 (E/1979/36), chap. IX, sect. A.
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