UN Human Rights Treaties

enterprises listed as he may consider necessary and appropriate, including explanations of responses, if any, and to submit the updated report to the Commission on Human Rights through the Subcommission; (b) To use all available material from other United Nations organs, Member States, national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity, specialized agencies, other intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and other relevant sources in order to indicate the volume, nature and adverse human consequences of the assistance given to the racist regime of South Africa; (c) To intensify direct contacts with the Department of Economic and Social Development and the Centre against Apartheid of the Secretariat, with a view to consolidating mutual cooperation in updating his report; 4. Calls upon all Governments: (a) To cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in making the report even more accurate and informative; (b) To disseminate the updated report and give its contents the widest possible publicity; 5. Calls upon all Governments and organizations to maintain sanctions against the regime of South Africa until the total dismantlement of the apartheid system, in conformity with the Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution S-l 6/1 of 14 December 1989 and contained in the annex thereto; 6. Invites the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at its forty-fourth session and the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-ninth session to consider the updated report; 7. Requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 45/84, to make two economists available to the Special Rapporteur to help him develop his analysis and documentation on specific cases of special importance; 8. Also requests the Secretary-General to give the Special Rapporteur all the assistance that he may require in the exercise of his mandate, with a view to intensifying direct contacts with the Department of Economic and Social Development and the Centre against Apartheid and to consolidating mutual cooperation in updating his report; 9. Further requests the Secretary-General to bring the updated report of the Special Rapporteur to the attention of Governments whose national financial institutions continue to deal with the regime of South Africa, and to call upon them to provide the Special Rapporteur with any information or comments they may wish to submit on the matter; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to contact the Government of South Africa, with a view to enabling the Special Rapporteur to visit South Africa on a special mission for the purpose of the next updating of his report; 11. Invites the Secretary-General to continue to give the updated report of the Special Rapporteur the widest possible distribution and publicity as a United Nations publication. 32nd plenary meeting 20 July 1992 1992/4. Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities The Economic and Social Council, Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/16 of 21 February 1992,2 in which the Commission approved the text of the draft declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,3 Aware that persons belonging to minorities may also enjoy under international or domestic law rights other than those set forth in the draft declaration, Recognizing that there is a continuing need to develop international protection in this area, Believing that the principles and rights as set forth in the draft declaration involve matters of common interest, Approves the draft declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and recommends it to the General Assembly for adoption and further action. 32nd plenary meeting 20 July 1992 1992/5. Declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance The Economic and Social Council, Recalling Commission on Human Rights decision 1986/106 of 13 March 1986, by which the Commission invited the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to reconsider the question of a declaration against unacknowledged detention of persons,4 Recalling also its resolution 1991/27 of 31 May 1991, by which it authorized an open-ended working group of the Commission to consider the draft declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced or involuntary disappearances, prepared by the Subcommission, Expressing its appreciation to the Commission for finalizing the draft declaration, 1. Decides to submit the report of the Working Group on the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance5 of the Commission on Human Rights to the General Assembly for consideration, with a view to the adoption by the Assembly, at its forty-seventh session, of the declaration contained in the annex to the report; 2. Recommends that, after adoption by the General Assembly, the full text of the declaration be disseminated as widely as possible. 32ndlenary meeting 20 July 1992 1992/6. Question of a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment The Economic and Social Council, Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/43 of 3 March 1992,2