20 July 1992

32nd plenary meeting

Declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling Commission on Human Rights decision 1986/106 of 13 March 1986, by which the Commission invited the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to reconsider the question of a declaration against unacknowledged detention of persons,

Recalling also its resolution 1991/27 of 31 May 1991, whereby it authorized an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights to consider the draft declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced or involuntary disappearances prepared by the Subcommission,

Expressing its appreciation to the Commission on Human Rights for finalizing the draft declaration,

1. Decides to submit the report of the Working Group on the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance of the Commission on Human Rights and the draft declaration to the General Assembly for consideration, with a view to the adoption of the declaration by the Assembly at its forty-seventh session;

2. Recommends that, after adoption by the General Assembly, the full text of the declaration be disseminated as widely as possible.