A/RES/323(IV) GA

323 (IV). Social advancement in Trust Territories The General Assembly, Having • taken note of the conclusions3 and recommendations of the Trusteeship Council on the social advancement of the following Trust Territories: the Cameroons and Togoland under British administration, the Cameroons and Togo- land under French administration, Western Sa- moa, New Guinea and Nauru, and of the con- clusions and observations of its Visiting Mission to East Africa, incorporated in the report4 of the Trusteeship Council, Recalling that one of the basic objectives of the International Trusteeship System is to en- courage respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, Resolves: 1. To express its satisfaction at the recom- mendations of the Trusteeship Council concerning the absolute prohibition of such uncivilized prac- tices as child marriage in the Trust Territories where such practices exist ; 2. To recommend the adoption of strong and effective measures to abolish immediately the cor- poral punishment of whipping in Ruandi-Urundi, o.1nd to give full support to the recommendation of the Trusteeship Council that corporal punish- ment should be abolished immediately in the Cameroons and Togoland under British adminis- tration and that corporal punishment should be formally abolished in New Guinea ; 3. To recommend to the Trusteeship Council the adoption of suitable measures for solving in a broad and humanitarian spirit such important social problems as migrant labour and penal sanc- tions for breach of labour contracts by indigenous inhabitants ; 4. To recommend the abolition of discrimina- tory laws and practices contrary to the principles of the Charter and the Trusteeship Agreements, in all Trust Territories in which such laws and practices sti 11 exist ; 5. To recommend that the Trusteeship Council should examine all laws, statutes and ordinances, as well as their application, in the Trust Terri- tories and make positive recommendations to thr Administering Authorities concerned with a view to the abolition of all discriminatorv prnvisions or practices ; " 6. To ask the Trusteeship Council to inclmk in its annual reports to the General Assembly a special section dealing with the implementation by the Administering Authorities of its r<'rotn- mendations concerning the irnprovc·nwnt of social conditions in Trust Territories, the abc,litinn of corporal punishment and, in particnbr, !lie action taken in pursuance of the recon1menrbtm11 ccr>- tained in paragraph 5 above. 240th ;~lenary meetin,1, 15 N,,vrm/1, r f<)f() 3 See Official Records of the fourth cession of 1.':r Gen• eral Assembly, Supplement No. 4. • Ibid. 5 Ibid. 8 See Resolutions adopted hy the Trusteeship Council during its third session, pag~ 1. 39 324 (IV). Educational advancement in Trust Territories The General Assenibly, Considering the desirability of including in the school curricula in the Trust Territories instruc- tion on the United Nations, the International Trusteeship System and the special status of Trust Territories, Having examined the conclusions5 and recom- mendations of the Trusteeship Council with re- spect to educational advancement in the Trust Territories of the Cameroons and Togoland under British administration, the Cameroons and Togo- land under French administration, Western Sa- moa, New Guinea and Nauru, Considering resolutions 36 (III) 6 of 8 July 1948, 83 (IV) 7 of 9 February 1949 and 110 (V) 8 of 19 July 1949 adopted by the Trusteeship Council, concerning the implementation of which the Assembly desires more detailed information, Resolves: 1. To recommend to the Trusteeship Council to continue its programme for developing and pro- moting in the Trust Territories the diffusion of information on the United Nations and on the International Trusteeship System and to make the necessarv recommendations to the Administering Authorities; 2. To draw the attention of the Trusteeship Council to the necessity of requesting the Ad- ministering Authorities to study the possibility of including in the curricula of schools in the Trust Territories instruction on the United Nations, the International Trusteeship System and the special status of Trust Territories, and to this end to make use, if they so desire, of the co-operation that may be furnished uy the United Nations Edu- cational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; 3. To express its hope that, in the spirit of the Trusteeship Council's recommendations for an increase in the budgetary provisi, · ;s for edu- cation in the Trust Territories, the Administering Authorities will give, in preparing their budgets, special prominence to improving and increasing educational facilities; 4. To express the opinion that the wider ex- pansion and more rapid development of the present facilities for the higher education of in- digenous students in the Trust Territories consti- tute an essential contribution to the progress towards autonomy or independence of the inhabi- tants of these Territories; 5. To congratulate the Administering Authori- ties which have adopted measures for the estab- lishment in Africa of eclncational institutions of university standard and systems of scholarships allowing indigenous stndents to complete their university training in othtr countries, and to recommend to the Trusteeship Council tk1t it call npun those Admin, ,1er1l!,; Authorities tG in- lensify such rneasun·s ;ml! that it ml! upon the Administering .\11tl,orities whicl1 111, t,; the mes- ent time have not applied anv of tlwi,c ,nea~ures tn adopt them as soon as pos~ihle ; 'Se~ Official Ruords d the fourth sessiori ,;/ thr Trusteeship Council, Resolutions, page 26. 8 See Official Records of the fifth session of the Trus- 1.,c,hip Council, Htcollltiunc,, page 16.

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