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V l. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Third Committee 181 plementation of the recommendations and pledges made at the Conference; 8. Requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with the Declaration and Programme of Action, to monitor, in consultation and close co-operation with the Organization of African Unity, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Development Pro- gramme, the follow-up to the Conference; 9. A/so requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the present resolution. 97th plenary meeting 4 December 1986 41/123. Measures of assistance provided to South Afri- can and Namibian refugee women and children The General Assembly, Taking note of the report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements ofthe United Na- tions Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, held at Nairobi from 15 to 26 July 1985,88 Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General on measures of assistance provided to women inside South Africa and Namibia and to women outside South Africa and Namibia who have become refugees as a result of the practice of apartheid,89 Recalling its resolutions 34/93 K of 12 December 1979, 35/206 N of 16 December 1980 and 36/172 K of 17 December 1981 on women and children under apart- heid, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/25 of 23 May 1986 on measures of assistance pro- vided to South African, Namibian and refugee women, Noting with regret that during the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, the status of women living under apartheid in South Africa and Namibia deteriorated, Concerned about the special needs of women and chil- dren forced to flee from South Africa and Namibia who have become refugees as a result of the practice of apart- heid, 1. Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1986/25 on measures of assistance provided to South Afri- can, Namibian and refugee women; 2. Calls upan ali Governments, intergovernmental or- ganizations and non-governmental organizations to inten- sify their support for and solidarity with refugee women and children outside South Africa and Namibia and in front-line States, in particular: (a) To provide for the widest possible dissemination of information about the situation of refugee women and children; (b) To provide legal, humanitarian and other assis- tance to refugee women and children and their families who are victims of apartheid; (e) To provide assistance to women in the national lib- eration movements to enable them to attend major inter- 88 Repon of che World Co11jáe11ce to Review and Appraise che Achievements of the United Natio11.1 Decade .fur Womcn: t:quality. Devdopment and Peaa. Nwrobi, 15-26 Julv ¡9¡¡5 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV. IO) • 89 E/CN.6/1986/5. ------------------ national conferences and seminars and to undertake speaking tours further to promote international solidarity with the oppressed women; (d) To support the projects and activities of the south- ern African national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity, particularly those in- volving refugee women and children; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure close co- ordination between United Nations bodies, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, the Centre against Apartheid, the Centre for Human Rights and the United Nations Council for Namibia, as well as the Department of Public lnforma- tion ofthe Secretariat, with a view to maximizing publicity on the situation of refugee women and children; 4. Requests the Special Committee against Apartheid to include in its programme ofwork for 1988 the organiza- tion of a seminar on the special needs ofSouth African and Namibian refugee women and children and ways of in- creasing measures of assistance to them, in co-operation with other relevant United Nations bodies; 5. Decides to consider the measures of assistance pro- vided to South African and Namibian refugee women and children under the item entitled "Office ofthe United Na- tions High Commissioner for Refugees" of the provisional agenda of its forty-second session. 97th plenary meeting 4 December 1986 41/124. Office of the United Nations High Commis- sioner for Refugees The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the activities of his Office,90 as well as the report ofthe Executive Committee ofthe Programme ofthe High Commissioner on the work of its thirty-seventh session.~1 and having heard the state- ments made by the High Commissioner on 7 and 11 November 1986,92 Recalling its resolution 40/ 118 of 13 December 1985, Reaffirming the purely humanitarian and non-political character of the activities of the Office of the High Com- missioner, Noting with satisfaction that, following recent acces- sions, one hundred and one States are now parties to the 1951 Convention93 and the 1967 Protocol94 relating to the Status of Refugees, and endorsing the Geneva Declaration thereon adopted by the Executive Committee of the Pro- gramme of the High Commissioner at its thirty-seventh session,95 Deeply concerned that refugees and displaced persons of concern to the High Commissioner continue to face dis- tressingly serious problems in ali parts of the world, Particular/y concerned that in various regions the safety and welfare of refugees and asylum-seekers continue to be 90 Ojficial Rccords uf the Cenera/ Assernbly. Forty-Jirst Sessio11. Sufrtement No. 12 (A/41/12). !bid., Supplemelll No. 12A tA/41/12/Add.l). 92 /bid.. Forty-jirst Se.1.\1011. Third Committe<', 39th meeting. paras. IJ-16 and 42nd meeting, paras. 98-103. "·1 Urnted Nations, Trmty Serie,. vol. 189, No. 2545, p. 150. º4 Jhid., vol. 606, No. 8791, p 267. '" Ojficial R<'cord.1 of th<' General Assembly. Fonv-first Sessio11. Supplml<'11I Vo. 12A (A/41/12'A.dd.1), para. 127

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