A/RES/35/190 GA

VI. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Third Committee 205 35/190. Voluntary fund of the United Nations for vic- tims of gross and flagrant violations of human rights The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 33 / 174 of 20 December 1978, by which it established a United Nations Trust Fund for Chile as a voluntary fund to receive contributions and distribute humanitarian, legal and financial aid to per- sons whose human rights have been violated in Chile, Recalling also its resolution 34 / 176 of 17 December 1979, Noting that all Governments have an obligation to respect and promote human rights, in accordance with the responsibilities they have undertaken under various international instruments, Noting with concern that gross and flagrant violations of human rights take place in various countries, Considering the plight of victims of gross and flagrant human rights violations wherever they take place, I. Decides to request the Commission on Human Rights to study, at its thirty-seventh session, the pos- sibility of extending the mandate of the United Nations Trust Fund for Chile to receive voluntary contributions and further to study criteria for their distribution, through established channels of assistance. as humani- tarian, legal and financial aid to persons, not covered by the mandate of other existing United Nations trust funds, whose human rights have been grossly and flagrantly violated, to those who have been forced to leave their countries as a result of gross and flagrant vio- lations of their human rights and to relatives of per- sons in the above-mentioned categories, and to report thereon to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1981; 2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth ses- sion recommendations concerning the extension of the mandate of the existing United Nations Trust Fund for Chile to become a United Nations Trust Fund for Vic- tims of Gross and Flagrant Violations of Human Rights. 96th plenary meeting 15 December ! 980 35 / 191. The right to education The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 34 / I 70 of 17 December 1979 on the right to education, Recalling the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultun,tl Rights, adopted by its resolutio~ 2200 A (XXI) of 16 December 1966, which recognizes the right of everyone to education, Bearing in mind the importance of the Convention against Discrimination in Education,' ix adopted on 14 December 1960 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Reaffirming the paramount importance of the im- plementation of the right to education for the full devel- opment of human personality and for the enjoyment of other fundamental human rights and freedoms, 118 United Nations, Treaty Series. vol. 429, 1\/o. 6193. p. 93. Convinced that the educational process could bring a substantial contribution to social progress, national de- velopment, mutual understanding and co-operation among peoples and to strengthening peace and interna- tional security. Recalling that the establishment of the new inter- national economic order requires effective support for the improvement and expansion of educational systems and for the training of specialized personnel and quali- fied cadres for the economic development of the devel- oping countries, Convinced of the topicality and urgency of provisions on education contained in the International Develop- ment Strategy for the Third United Nations Develop- ment Decade,' 14 Bearing in mind the valuable work of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in the education and training of national personnel, as well as the importance of its contribution to the imple- mentation of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, Welcoming the recommendations adopted by the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women on the importance of the non-discriminatory implementation of the right to education for the im- provement of the status of women in general and of young women in particular,'"' Taking note with satisfaction of the interest shown by the Executive Board of the United Nations Education- al, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the imple- mentation of General Assembly resolution 34 / 170, I. Invites all States to consider the adoption of ap- propriate legislative, administrative and other measures, including material guarantees, in order to ensure the full implementation of the right to universal education through, inter alia, free and compulsory primary educa- tion. universal and gradually free-of-charge secondary education, equal access to all educational facilities and the access of the young generation to science and cul- ture; 2. Appeals to States which have not yet done so to accelerate the procedure of ratification of the Interna- tional Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of the Convention against Discrimination in Education, and to States parties to those instruments and to other instruments in this field to put into effect systematically their provisions; 3. Invites all States to give all necessary attention to defining and determining in a more precise manner the means for implementing the provisions concerning the role of education in the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade; 4. Invites all specialized agencies to co-operate with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultur- al Organization to ensure education a high priority in the implementation of various programmes and proj- ects, in the framework of the International Develop- ment Strategy for the Third United Nations Develop- ment Decade; 5. Appeals again to all States, in particular the developed countries, to support actively through fel- lowships and other means, including the general in- ,,,, See sect. V, resolution 35/56, annex, sect. 0. '-'" See Report of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade fi1r Women: Equality. Development and Peace, Copenhagen, 14-30 July 191!0 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.80.lV.3 and corrigen- dum), chap. 1.

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