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Requests the Committee to give careful consideration to the
possible means by which it might contribute to the implementation of the
Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the
World Summit for Social Development, having particular regard to the
commitments contained in the latter concerning the adoption of national
strategies for social development and the definition of time-bound goals and
targets for reducing overall poverty.
DRAFT DECISION I
Payment of honoraria to members of the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Economic and Social Council, noting that members of the Human Rights
Committee, as well as of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, all receive a
modest honorarium for their services, and that as a result of measures
approved by the General Assembly members of two of the remaining three human
rights treaty bodies will also do so, and recognizing that it is inequitable
for the one remaining Committee to be treated differently in this respect,
urges the General Assembly to authorize payment to each member of the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of an honorarium equivalent
to that payable to the members of other relevant treaty bodies.
DRAFT DECISION II
Resources to enable the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights to obtain access to specialized expertise in its work
The Economic and Social Council endorses the proposal made by the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that an amount of
10,000 dollars annually be included within the overall budget of the Centre
for Human Rights, to enable the Committee to bring in specialists to
participate in its days of general discussion and to commission papers dealing
with those technical dimensions of its work, especially relating to
indicators, which require expert elaboration. The Council notes that this
accords with the recommendation of the World Conference on Human Rights in
relation to indicators and that the relevant funds would not be spent on
members of the Committee and would be committed only with the approval of the
head of the Centre for Human Rights.