UN Human Rights Treaties

Recognizing that the Secretary-General has recently obtained information from many States with respect to those substances, in response to his request,40
1. Urges the World Health Organization to select any of those amphetamine-like drugs for which data have been collected and which represent the most serious social and health consequences, to review those substances immediately, in accordance with Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 2 (S-VII) of 8 February 19824' and consistent with the principles governing the new review procedures of the World Health Organization,42 and to make its findings available to the Commission at its thirty-first session;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to analyse the information recently obtained by him, in accordance with all relevant provisions of Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 2 (S-VII), to prepare a report on the basis of that analysis, and to transmit that report, together with the report of the World Health Organization, to parties to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961,43 and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances44 and to members of the Commission not later than two months prior to the beginning of the thirty-first session of the Commission.
19th plenary meeting 24'May 1984
1984/24. Measures to combat racism and racial discrimination
The Economic and Social Council,
Mindful of resolution 1983/10 of 5 September 1983 of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities45 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 1984/9 of 28 February 198446 on measures to combat racism and racial discrimination,
I. Authorizes the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to entrust Mr. Asbj0rn Eide with carrying out a study on the achievements made and obstacles encountered during the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, with special emphasis on the progress made in this field, if any, between the first and second world conferences to combat racism and racial discrimination, taking into account also any resolutions the General Assembly might adopt on the report of the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination47 and the first stage of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade;48
40 See E/CN.7/1984/3 and Add.1.
41 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council,
1982, Supplement No. 3 (E/1982/13), chap. VIII, sect. A.
42 See World Health Organization document EB73.R1I.
43 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol 520, No. 7515, p. 151.
44 Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956, p. 175.
45 See E/CN.4/1984/3 and Corr. I and 2. chap. XXI, sect. A.
46 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council
1984, Supplement No. 4 (E/1984/14 and Corr.1), chap. II.
47 United Nations publication. Sales No, E.83.XIV.4 and
corrigendum.
48 General Assembly resolution 38/14 annex

2. Recommends that the study should propose new or additional measures in this field which can be taken up for examination by the Sub-Commission;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to give all necessary assistance to Mr. Asbj0rn Ride in his work;
4. Requests that the study be presented to the Sub-Commission at its thirty-eighth session.
20th plenary meeting 24 May 1984
1984/25. Question of a convention on the rights of the child
The Economic and Social Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 38/114 of 16 December 1983, by which the General Assembly requested the Commission on Human Rights to give the highest priority at its fortieth session to the question of completing the draft convention on the rights of the child, and Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/39 of 27 May 1983, by which the Council authorized a meeting of an open-ended working group for a period of one week prior to the fortieth session of the Commission to facilitate and speed up the completion of the work on a draft convention on the rights of the child,
Considering that it was not found possible to complete the work on the draft convention during the fortieth session of the Commission,
Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1984/24 of 8 March I984,49
1. Authorizes a meeting of an open-ended working group for a period of one week prior to the forty-first session of the Commission on Human Rights to facilitate and speed up the completion of the work on a draft convention on the rights of the child;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to transmit documents relating to the draft convention on the rights of the child to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-first session and to extend all facilities to the open-ended working group during the meeting to be held prior to the forty-first session of the Commission.
20th plenary meeting 24 Max 1984
1984/26. Human rights violations and disabled persons
The Economic and Social Council,
Recalling its resolution 1983/19 of 26 May 1983,
Having regard to the Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons,50 the Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons51 and the Declaration on the Rights of Deaf-Blind Persons.52
49 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council,
1984. Supplement No. 4 (E/1984/14 and Corr.1). chap. II.
50 General Assembly resolution 2856 (XXVI).
51 General Assembly resolution 3447 (XXX). 50 Economic and Social Council decision 1979/24, annex.

Welcoming the decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 37/53 of 3 December 1982, to proclaim the period 1983-1992 United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons,
Deeply concerned that serious violations of human rights remain a significant cause of temporary and permanent disability,
1. Encourages the efforts of the Secretary-General to obtain the views of United Nations bodies, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other concerned non-governmental organizations on ways and means of preventing serious violations of human rights which may cause disabilities;
2. Requests Governments to pay particular attention to ways and means of strengthening procedures whereby disabled persons may seek redress for human rights violations in accordance with resolution 1982/1 of 7 September 1982 of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities;"
3. Invites Governments, in consultation with organizations of and for disabled persons, to inform the Secretary-General of their views and policies on these issues so that he can transmit them to the Sub-Commission, in accordance with its resolution 1982/1, for consideration at its thirty-seventh session;
4. Requests the Sub-Commission to appoint a special rapporteur to undertake a thorough study, in consultation with the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, of the causal connection between serious violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and disability and of the progress made to alleviate problems, and to submit its views and recommendations, through the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Social Development, to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1986;
5. Decides exceptionally to include in the agenda of its first regular session of 1986 a special item on disabled persons to coincide with the approach, in 1987, of the mid-point of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, in order to allow for a full debate of the Special Rapporteur's report and the views and recommendations of the Sub-Commission, the Com-mission on Human Rights and the Commission on Social Development on these and related issues.
20th plenary meeting 24 May 1984
1984/27. Conscientious objection to military service
The Economic and Social Council
1. Decides:
(a) That the report prepared by Mr. Eide and Mr. Mubanga-Chipoya on conscientious objection to military service54 should be printed and given the widest possible distribution;
53 See E/CN.4/1983/4 and Corr.1, chap. XXI, sect. A.
54 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1983/30.

(h) To transmit the report for comments and observations to Governments and relevant United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, other intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-first session on those comments and observations and on other significant developments regarding the human rights of conscientious objectors;
3. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to study the report on conscientious objection to military service, including the recommendations contained therein, as well as the report of the Secretary-General containing the comments and observations, under the item entitled "The role of youth in the promotion and protection of human rights, including the question of conscientious objection to military service".
20th plenary meeting 24 May 1984
1984/28. Exploitation of child labour
The Economic and Social Council
Requests the Secretary-General to organize, in close co-operation with the International Labour Office, a seminar on ways and means of achieving the elimination of the exploitation of child labour in all parts of the world, within the framework of the programme of advisory services in the field of human rights.
20th plenary meeting 24 May 1984
1984/29. Study of discrimination in respect of the right of everyone to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country
The Economic and Social Council,
Recalling the Study of Discrimination in Respect of the Right of Everyone to Leave Any Country, Including His Own, and to Return to His Country,55 submitted to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at its fifteenth session, in 1963, by the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Jose D. Ingles, and the draft principles respecting this right adopted by the Sub-Commission at the same session,56
Also recalling Sub-Commission resolution 7 (XXXIV) of 9 September 1981,57 by which the Sub-Commission requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its thirty-fifth session a concise note informing it of the consideration given by the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council to the report on the aforementioned study,
55 United Nations publication, Sales No. 64.XIV.2.
56 See E/CN.4/846 and Corr.1, chap. VI.
57 See E/CN.4/1512. chap. XX. sect. A.