E/CN.4/1503 page 11
22. Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of
human rights were the subject of Resolution 36/154 in which the
Organization of African Unity was commended on the adoption of the African Charter of Human and People's Rights. The holding of consultations with Member States of the Asian region on
arrangements for a seminar at Colombo on promotion and protect-
ion of human rights in the region was noted. In Resolution
36/169 referring to the observance in 1983 of the thirty-fifth
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
General Assembly appealed to Member States, the specialized
agencies and all international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, concerned with the protection and promotion
of human rights, to take measures to ensure that the anniver-
sary is the occasion of special efforts to promote inter-
national understanding, co-operation and peace as well as the
universal and effective respect for human rights.
Resolution 36/165, the General Assembly decided to establish,
at its next session, an open-ended Working Group for the
purpose of concluding the elaboration of the draft declaration
on the human rights of individuals who are not citizens of the
country in which they live.
In
23. An analysis of the Covenants, although useful, would be
beyond the scope of this Study. In any case, the majority of the countries from which a mass exodus has occurred during the
period of the Study has not so far acceded to those Covenants.
The Special Rapporteur felt that for the purpose of estab-
lishing the nature of the relationship between human rights and
mass exodus, it would be adequate to analyse article by article
the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights in order to
establish to what extent exodus is a by-product of a violation of these rights.