Universal Rights Group

🔈 Today we celebrate the week of Solidarity with the Peoples of !

📜 In the Charter, a Non-Self-Governing Territory is defined as a Territory ‘whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government’.

According to Chapter XI of the Charter, the Declaration regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories, Member States administering Territories, which have not attained self-government are urged to:
🔹 Recognise ‘that the interests of the inhabitants of these Territories are paramount’ and accept as a ‘sacred trust’ the obligation to promote their well-being.
🔹 Take effective measures to safeguard and guarantee the inalienable rights of the peoples of those Territories to their natural resources, including land.
🔹 Establish and maintain control over the future development of those resources.
🔹 Take all necessary steps to protect the property rights of the peoples of those Territories.
🔹 Assist peoples of those Territories in developing self-government and democratic political institutions.
🔹 Provide moral and material assistance to the peoples of those Territories.
🔹 Transmit regularly to the Secretary-General information on the economic, social and educational conditions in the Territories under their administration.

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