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144 General Assembly-Thirty-thircl Session 3. Requests the Secretary-General to elaborate, in consultation with Member States, the specialized agencies and organizations concerned, and to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a draft programme for the World Assembly on the Elderly and to make recommendations on the organization and objectives of the World Assembly; 4. Recommends that Member States, in formulat- ing their comments on the draft programme, should include, inter alia, attention to categorizing and analys- ing the problems of elderly persons in their societies; 5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session the item entitled "Problems of the elderly and the aged", under which the report of the Secretary-General on the World Assembly on the Elderly would be considered. 84th plenary meeting 14 December 1978 33/53. Human rights and scientifie and techno- logical developments The General Assembly, Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolu- tion 10 A (XXXIII) of 11 March 1977,4º in which the Commission requested the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minori- ties to study the question of the protection of those detained on the grounds of mental ill-health with a view to formulating guidelines, if possible, and to submit to the Commission a progress report on this study, Requests the Commission on Human Rights to urge that the study of the question of the protection of those detained on the grounds of mental ill-health be under- taken as a matter of priority by the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and to submit a progress report on this question to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session. 84th plenary meeting 14 December 1978 33 / 54. Review aml eo-orclination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Nations system and eo-opera- tion with other international programmes in the fielcl of human rights The General Assembly, Conscious of its responsibilities under Article 13 of the Charter of the United Nations to initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of pro- moting international co-operation in the economic, social, cultural, educational and health fields, and as- sisting in the realization of human rights and funda- mental freedoms for ali without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, Having in mind the responsibility of the General Assembly for the discharge of the functions set forth 40 See Officia/ Records of the Ecunumic and Social Council, Sixty-second Session, Suppleme11t No. 6 (E/5927), chap. XXI, sect. A. in Chapter IX of the Charter and the particular role of the Economic and Social Council under Chapter X in co-ordinating activities in the field of human rights, Taking into account the annual reports of the Hu- man Rights Committee and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in addition to reports of the Economic and Social Council, including those of the Commission on Human Rights, which provide a broader basis for consideration of human rights activities of the United Nations, Recognizing that sorne of the specialized agencies, especially the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Health Organization, have developed procedures and programmes for the promo- tion of human rights within their fields of competence, and that the work of these agencies significantly com- plements the work done by the United Nations human rights organs, Noting the existence of other human rights organs and programmes which function under separate consti- tutional instruments of intergovernmental organiza- tions and have compiled significant records of human rights actions within their areas of jurisdiction, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1159 (XLI) of 5 August 1966, by which formal rela- tions between regional organizations and the Com- mission on Human Rights were authorized, Recalling that, in its resolution 32/ 130 of 16 De- cember 1977, it reaffirmed that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are indivisible and interde- pendent, and that equal attention and urgent considera- tion should be given to the implementation, promotion and protection of both civil and political, and eco- nomic, social and cultural rights, Considering that the interdependence and indivisi- bility of human rights and fundamental freedoms de- mand renewed efforts to stimulate greater co-operation, co-ordination and communication among all the inter- governmental agencies and institutions involved in protecting and promoting human rights and funda- mental freedoms, 1. Requests the Commission on Human Rights, in the context of the over-all analysis it has under- taken in response to General Assembly resolution 32/ J 30 and in accordance with Commission resolution 26 (XXXIV) of 8 March J 978,41 to consult with spe- cialized agencies and other organs and bodies of the United Nations system which are, according to their mandates, concerned with the protection and promo- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms and, as appropriate, with other regional intergovernmental bodies related to the United Nations system particularly concerned with human rights, on the various human rights activities and programmes and the existing modes of co-ordination, co-operation and communica- tion among them; 2. Further requests the Commission on Human Rights to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty- fourth session, through the Economic and Social Coun- cil and within the report of the aforementioned over-all analysis: 41 See Official Recurds of tite Economic and Social Cocmcil, 1978, Supplement No. 4 (E/1978/34), chap. XXVI, sect. A.

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