Racial Discrimination in Non-Self-Governing Territories

A/RES/1536(XV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1961.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1953–1963

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/1850(XVII)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1963	A/RES/1850(XVII)	Racial discrimination in Non-Self-Governing Territories	375	16%Compare
1962	A/RES/1698(XVI)	Racial discrimination in Non-Self-Governing Territories	427	19%Compare
1961	A/RES/1536(XV)	Racial discrimination in Non-Self-Governing Territories	339	14%Compare
1959	A/RES/1328(XIII)	Racial discrimination in Non-Self-Governing Territories	257	14%Compare
1953	A/RES/644(VII)	Racial discrimination in Non-Self-Governing Territories	345	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Non-Self-Governing Territories Racial Discrimination

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Endorses the view of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories that not only ~s racial disc:im~nation a violation of human rights, but 1t also constitutes a deterrent to progress in all fields of development in the Non-Self-Governing Territories ;5

Recommends that the Administering Members immediately rescind or revoke all laws and regulations which tend to encourage or sanction, directly or inclirectly, discriminatory policies and practices based on racial considerations, and that they do their utmost to discourage such practices by all other means possible ;

Urges. the Administering Members to give full and 1mmed1ate effect to the recommendation of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories that measures to solve the problem of race relations should include the extension to all inhabitants of th~ full exercise of basic po(itical rights, in particular the nght to vote, and the establishment of equality among the members of all races inhabiting the Non-Self- Governing Territories;

Requests the Administering Members to furnish all relevant information relating to the present resolution to the Committee on Information from Non- Self-Governing Territories so as to enable the latter to sub1;1it a report to the General Assembly at its sixteenth session.

15 December 1960.

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