UNITED NATIONS Economic and Social Council Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/NGO/24 20 Auqust 1990 Oriqinal: ENGLISH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities Forty-second session Aqenda item 19 THE RIGHT OF EVERYONE TO LEAVE ANY COUNTRY, INCLUDING HIS OWN, AND TO RETURN TO HIS COUNTRY Written statement submitted by the International League for Human Rights, a non-qovernmental orqanization in consultative status (category II) The Secretary-General has received the following communication which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1296 (XLIV). Draft declaration on the right to leave and return 1. We commend the Working Group for beginning the review of Special Rapporteur Mubanga-Chipoya's draft declaration, thouqh it had been our hope that there would be allotted to this subject more than the very brief time available to it at this session. We hope that next year, there will be sufficient time to complete the review of all the articles and that the Sub-Commission will be able to forward to the Commission an aqreed text. [20 August 1990] GE.90-17323/4275a E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/NGO/24 paqe 2 2. In that review, we assume that it will take into account the several draft declarations annexed to the Special Rapporteur's final report (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1988/35 and Add.1/Corr.1) and the constructive suggestions in the Secretarv-General's analytic compilation of comments on the draft declaration. 3. The following are brief comments on several views expressed in the Working Group, and oreviouslv in some written communications to the Sub-Commission (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/47). 4. We disagree stronglv with the suggestion of including in various orovisions of the declaration, language determining the right to leave a countrv on its compatibility with national legislation. Similar suggestions, as we know, have been made in the past in regard also to other human rights. 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a written statement submitted to the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, discussing the right of everyone to leave any country, including their own, and to return to their country. The content focuses on the drafting of a declaration on this right, reviewing previous draft declarations, and providing comments on certain views expressed in a working group. The tone is formal and technical, indicating a focus on human rights rather than economic or environmental issues.

**Category**
Human rights