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Economic and Social Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The sixteenth session of the Economic and Social Council was resumed at United Nations headquarters in New York on November 30, and concluded on December 7, 1953. The Council worked out its basic program for 1954 and considered the provisional agenda for its seventeenth session drawn up by the Secretary-General (Hammarskjold). It transmitted to the Commission on Human Rights for appropriate action the resolutions of the eighth session of the General Assembly on the draft International Covenants on Human Rights and measures of implementation; the right of peoples to self-determination; and the development of the work of the United Nations for wider observance of, and respect for, human rights and fundamental freedoms. Amending its resolution of July 31, 1953, on the program of concerted practical action in the social field of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, the Council added to the list of projects on which such a program should concentrate the improvement of health, education and social welfare in the non-self-governing and trust territories. The Technical Assistance Committee, which had been instructed during the first part of the session to submit recommendations concerning the financial arrangements for the expanded program of technical assistance, informed the Council that the working party it had established had decided to refer the question to the Technical Assistance Board, and that since the Board was not due to meet until December 1953, it had received no specific proposals. Finally, the Council confirmed the members nominated by Denmark, Panama, Cuba, the Byelorussian SSR, and China to the Statistical, Social and Human Rights Commissions.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , May 1954 , pp. 239 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1954

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References

1 For summary of action taken during the first part of the Council's sixteenth session, see International Organization, VII, p. 531–540.

2 For information on these resolutions of the eighth session of the General Assembly, see ibid., VIII, p. 82–87.

3 Economic and Social Council, Official Records (16th session [resumed]), Supplement 1, p. 1. For further information on the resolution adopted earlier in the sixteenth session, see International Organization, VII, p. 537.

4 United Nations Press Release ECAFE/15, February 19, 1954.

5 For the report of the Committee on Industry and Trade to ECAFE, see Document E/CN.11/383 (E/CN.11/I/100).

6 United Nations Press Release EC/1342, March 26, 1954.

7 Document E/ECE/174 (Publication No. 1954.II.E.2).

8 Economic and Social Council, Official Records (17th session), Supplement 2.

9 Document E/CN.12/AC.24/2/Rev.1.

10 Economic and Social Council, Official Records (17 session), Supplement 2, p. 12.

11 Document E/CN.12/AC.24/5–E/CN.12/CCE.1.

12 For an account of proceedings of the Committee of the Whole, see Economic and Social Council, Official Records (17th session), Supplement 2, p. 10–17.

13 For information on this decision of the commission's fifth session, see International Organization, VII, p. 263. Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR.125, p. 7.

14 In planning its future program of work during its fifth session, the subcommission had decided that among the measures to combat discrimination that it would study would be those in the field of employment and occupation.

15 Document E/CN.4/703–E/CN.4/Sub.2/157, p. 72.

16 Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR.138, p. 10.

17 See Document E/CN.4/703–E/CN.4/Sub.2/157 for the report of the sixth session of the subcommission to the Commission on Human Rights.

18 Document E/CN.4/695.

19 Document E/2354, p. 50.

20 Document E/CONF.15/EX/SR.1–17, p. 8–10.

21 See Document E/CONF.15/15 (Publication No. 1952.II.D.3) for summary proceedings of the conference.

22 For text of the International Sugar Agreement, see ibid., p. 25.

23 The Times (London), 12 19, 1953Google Scholar .

24 For summary of the work of the first session of the United Nations Tin Conference, see International Organization, V, p. 187.

25 United Nations Press Release TIN/9, December 9, 1953. For text of this agreement see Document E/CONF.12(2)/1.

26 United Nations Press Release TIN/10, December 9, 1953.