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The Special Rapporteur submitted his second progress report to the SubCommission on 29 July 1992, for its forty-fourth session (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1992/8). On
27 August 1992, the Sub-Commission adopted resolution 1992/32, by which it
requested the Special Rapporteur to continue his study and to submit to the SubCommission, at its forty-fifth session, a final report which should include a set of
conclusions and recommendations aimed at developing basic principles and guidelines
with respect to restitution, compensation and rehabilitation for victims of gross
violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms (see Report of the SubCommission, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1992/58 (E/CN.4/1993/2)).
The Special Rapporteur submitted his final report on 2 July 1993, at the fortyfifth session of the Sub-Commission (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/8). On 25 August 1993, the
Sub-Commission adopted resolution 1993/29, by which it decided to transmit the
study of the Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights. By the same
resolution, the Sub-Commission decided to examine further, at its forty-sixth session,
the proposed basic principles and guidelines included in the study and, for that
purpose, to establish, if necessary, a sessional working group at that session with a
view to adopting a body of such principles and guidelines, and it further requested the
Secretary-General to invite governments and competent intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations to submit their comments on the proposed basic principles
and guidelines (see Report of the Sub-Commission, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/45
(E/CN.4/1994/2) and Corr.1). At its fiftieth session, the Commission on Human Rights
adopted resolution 1994/35 of 4 March 1994, in which it expressed its appreciation for
the work of the Special Rapporteur and regarded the proposed basic principles and
guidelines as a useful basis for addressing the question of restitution, compensation
and rehabilitation for victims of gross violations of human rights. It therefore
recommended that the Sub-Commission take measures to examine the proposed basic
principles and guidelines with a view to making proposals thereon and report to the
Commission (see Report of the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/1994/132
(E/1994/24)).
At the forty-sixth session of the Sub-Commission, held from 1 to 26 August
1994 in Geneva, a Sessional Working Group on the Administration of Justice and the
Question of Compensation was established to examine further the proposed basic
principles and guidelines in accordance with resolution 1993/29 of the SubCommission. On 26 August 1994, the Sub-Commission adopted resolution 1994/33,
by which, after noting the report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant to SubCommission resolution 1993/29 (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/7 and Add.1) and the report of
the sessional working group (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/22), it decided to continue the
consideration of the proposed basic principles and guidelines at its forty-seventh
session (see Report of the Sub-Commission, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/56). On 3 March
1995, the Commission on Human Rights, at its fifty-first session, adopted resolution
1995/34, in which it encouraged the Sub-Commission to continue to give
consideration to the proposed basic principles and guidelines, requested States to
provide information about relevant national legislation to the Secretary-General and
requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Commission on this subject
at its fifty-second session (Report of the Commission on Human Rights,
E/CN.4/1995/176 (E/1995/23)).
The Working Group continued its consideration of the proposed basic
principles and guidelines at the forty-seventh session of the Sub-Commission, which
was held in Geneva from 31 July to 25 August 1995. On 24 August 1995, the SubCommission adopted decision 1995/117 (see Report of the Sub-Commission,
E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/51 (E/CN.4/1996/2)), by which it decided to request the Working
Group to continue the consideration of the proposed basic principles and guidelines,
with priority, at the next session and requested the former Special Rapporteur to
submit a revised set of proposed basic principles and guidelines, taking into account
the new comments received from States and intergovernmental and non-governmental
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