UNITED
NATIONS
A
General
Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES /47/133
12 February 1993
Forty-seventh
Agenda
item
97
session
(b)
RESOLUTION
{on
the
report
47/133.
The
General
of
of
the
the
world,
of
the
the
Declaration
Enforced
Third
on
Bearing
that,
United
in
mind
Article
55,
rights
and
Deeply
concerned
enforced
detained
THE
GENERAL
Committee
the
ASSEMBLY
(A/47/678/Add.2)}
Protection
Disappearance
in
accordance
Nations
and
with
other
inherent dignity and of the equal
human family is the foundation of
particular
human
of
BY
of
All
Persons
from
Assembly,
Considering
Charter
ADOPTED
the
to
obligation
promote
fundamental
that
of
the
States
under
countries,
often
universal
many
proclaimed
instruments,
in
respect
the
Charter,
for,
in
and
a
in
observance
persistent
members
the
of,
manner,
disappearances occur,
in the sense that persons are arrested,
or abducted against their will or otherwise deprived of their
by officials
of different
branches or levels of Government,
or
groups
or private
individuals
acting on behalf of,
or with the
the
recognition
and inalienable rights of all
freedom,
justice and peace in
freedoms,
in
principles
international
liberty
by organized
support,
direct
or indirect,
consent or acquiescence of the Government,
followed by a refusal
to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the persons concerned or a refusal to
acknowledge the deprivation of their liberty, which places such persons
outside the protection of the law,
Considering that enforced disappearance
any society committed to respect for the rule
fundamental freedoms,
and that the systematic
nature of a crime against humanity,
Recalling its resolution 33/173 of
expressed concern about the reports from
93-09118
undermines the deepest values of
of law, human rights and
practice of such acts is of the
20 December 1978,
in
various parts of the
which
it