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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/135
18 February 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]
48/135.
Internally displaced persons
The General Assembly,
Deeply disturbed by the large number of internally displaced persons
throughout the world, and conscious of the serious problem this is creating
for the international community,
Recalling the relevant norms of international human rights instruments
as well as of international humanitarian law,
Conscious of the human rights as well as the humanitarian dimensions of
the problem of internally displaced persons,
Conscious also of the need for the United Nations system to gather
information comprehensively on the issues of the protection of the human
rights of and assistance to internally displaced persons,
Welcoming the initiative of the Commission on Human Rights on this
question and, in particular, its resolution 1992/73 of 5 March 1992, 1/ by
which it requested the Secretary-General to appoint a representative to study
the human rights issues related to internally displaced persons, and
Commission resolution 1993/95 of 11 March 1993, 2/ by which it requested the
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1/
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992,
Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II, sect. A.
2/
Ibid., 1993, Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect. A.
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