unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) (09/12/89)
requested the Secretary-General to make available to the Special
Rapporteur two economists to help him develop his analysis and
documentation on specific cases of special importance. It
requested the Secretary-General to bring the updated report of
the Special Rapporteur to the attention of Governments whose
national financial institutions continued to deal with the
regime of South Africa, and to call upon them to provide the
Special Rapporteur with any information or comments they might
wish to present on the matter.
In a resolution on measures to combat racism and racial
discrimination and the role of the Sub-Commission, adopted
without a vote, the Sub-Commission decided to refer to the
Commission on Human Rights, for further consideration, the final
report of the Special Rapporteur, as well as the summary records
of the debates on this issue during the forty-first session of
the Sub-Commission; strongly recommended to the Commission on
Human Rights that the final report of the Special Rapporteur be
published and distributed on as wide a scale as possible; and
decided to consider further, at its forty-second session, the
recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur and the
implementation.
In a resolution on the realization of economic, social and
cultural rights, adopted without a vote, the Sub-Commission
welcomed the preliminary report entitled "Realization of
Economic Social and Cultural Rights" prepared by Mr. Turk,
Special Rapporteur (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1989/19); and endorsed his
preliminary conclusions. It requested the Special Rapporteur to
prepare a progress report on the realization of economic, social
and cultural rights, taking into account comments made in the
discussion on the preliminary report at the forty-first session
of the Sub-Commission.
Under a resolution concerning foreign debt, economic adjustment
policies and their effects on the enjoyment of human rights, the
Sub-Commission affirmed that any foreign debt strategy must be
designed not to hamper the steady improvement of conditions
guaranteeing the enjoyment of human rights and must be intended,
inter alia, to ensure that debtor developing countries achieve
an adequate growth level to meet their social and economic needs
and their development requirements. It stressed the need to
revive the economic growth and development of these countries
and reduce the political and social costs of structural
adjustment programmes so that they might guarantee the necessary
conditions for the full enjoyment of all human rights. It also
considered it necessary to invite the developed countries and
multilateral financial institutions to take particular account,
in formulating their debt policies, of social objectives and
growth and development priorities.
The resolution was adopted by a vote of 17 in favour to 1
against, with 1 abstention.
In a resolution on the independence and impartiality of the
judiciary, jurors and assessors and the independence of lawyers,
adopted without a vote, the Sub-Commission called on Governments
to respect and observe the independence of the judiciary and
refrain from arbitrary interferences in the performance of its
duties. It recommended that States provide for protection of
practising lawyers against arbitrary restrictions and pressures
in the exercise of their functions invited Mr. Joinet to prepare
a working paper on means in the area of monitoring by which the
Sub-Commission could assist in ensuring respect for the
independence of the judiciary and the protection of practising
lawyers as requested in Commission resolution 1989/32; and
requested the Secretary-General to provide Mr. Joinet with all
the assistance necessary for the successful completion of his
task.
In a resolution on elimination of all forms of intolerance and
of discrimination based on religion or belief, adopted without a
vote, the Sub-Commission brought to the attention of the
Commission, at its forty-sixth session the following issues and
considerations; the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms
of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
should continue to serve as a basis for any further work both in
standard-setting and in considering measures to ensure respect
for the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and
belief, the possibility and drafting of any new binding
instrument should be considered in the light of the complexity
of the subject which required sound research and analysis.
In a resolution on human rights in times of armed conflict,
adopted without a vote, the Sub-Commission recommended a
resolution to the Commission on Human Rights under which the
Commission would call upon all Governments to give particular
attention to the education of all members of security and other
armed forces, and of all law enforcement agencies, in the
international law of human rights and of humanitarian law
applicable in armed conflict.
In a resolution on the right of everyone to leave any country,
including his own and to return to his country, adopted without
a vote, the Sub-Commission requested the Secretary-General to
prepare an analytical compilation of the comments on the Draft
Declaration received from Government, specialized agencies,
intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental
organizations and of the comments made by the members of the
Sub-Commission.
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