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66 Am. J. Int'l L. 240 (1972)
Official Documents--United Nations Economic and Social Council

handle is hein.journals/ajil66 and id is 247 raw text is: OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SUBCOMMISSION ON PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES REsOLUTION 1 (XXIV) QUESTION OF TaE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RicEis AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOmS, INCLUDING PoLcnEs OF RAcmIL DISCIuMNATION AND SEGREGATION AND OF APARTHrID, IN ALL CoUNTRIEs, w= PARncuLAR REFEENCE TO COLONIAL AND Onnr DEPENDENT CoUNnuEs AND TEmuTolms Adopted August 14,1971 * The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Considering that the Economic and Social Council, by is Resolution 1503 (XLVIII),** decided that the Sub-Commission should devise ap- propriate procedures for dealing with the question of admissibility of communications received by the Secretary-General under Council Resolu- tion 728 F (XXVIII) of 30 July 1959 and in accordance with Council Resolution 1235 (XLII) of 6 June 1967, Adopts the following provisional procedures for dealing with the ques- tion of admissibility of communications referred to above: (1) Standards and criteria (a) The object of the communication must not be inconsistent with the relevant principles of the Charter, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of the other applicable instruments in the field of human rights. (b) Communications shall be admissible only if, after consideration thereof, together with the replies, if any, of the governments concerned, there are reasonable grounds to believe that they may reveal a consistent pattern of gross and reliably attested violations of human rights and funda- mental freedoms, including policies of racial discrimination and segrega- tion and of apartheid, in any country, including colonial and other de- pendent countries and peoples. (2) Source of communications (a) Admissible communications may originate from a person or group of persons who, it can be reasonably presumed, are victims of the viola- *U.N. Doe. E/CN. 4/Sub. 2 (XXIV) CR1. 6, Aug. 18, 1971. Reprinted in 64 AJ.I.L. 1023 (1970). 240

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