Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

A/RES/2647(XXV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1971.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1967–1976

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/3379(XXX)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1976	A/RES/3379(XXX)	Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination	1,607	—
1972	A/RES/2784(XXVI)	Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination	—	—
1971	A/RES/2647(XXV)	Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination	657	—
1971	A/RES/2646(XXV)	Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination	74	—
1967	A/RES/2142(XXI)	Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Apartheid Equality Ethnic and Racial Groups Information Dissemination Racial Discrimination Social Justice Tolerance

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Solemnly reiterates its condemnation of all forms of racial discrimination wherever they may occur, and particularly of apartheid, as a flagrant contradiction of the spirit and the letter of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and deplores the persistence of such_ practices;

Appeals to the Governments of countries where forms of racial discrimination still persist and to the Governments which officially apply such policies as apartheid to take without delay all the legislative, educational and social measures necessary to end them and to ensure respect for human rights in accordance with the Charter;

Vehemently affirms the need for all men to be given an equal chance and to be enabled to live and work together in an atmosphere of mutual trust and tolerance, without discrimination and with full respect for the national and cultural identity of peoples or distinct ethnic groups;

Urges Member States to do their utmost to eliminate all racial discrimination in education, employment, housing and other fields of community life, and to encourage the development of multiracial activities with a view to removing obstacles to understanding among the various racial groups;

Invites all peoples of the world and all men of goodwill to condemn unrelentingly the evils of racial policies and to disseminate all information calculated to combat such policies;

Invites countries which are not yet parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to take any steps necessary to ratify it or accede to it if possible in 1971, on the occasion of the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

Emphasizes the importantic- of the work being done by the United Nations, io particular the Commission on Human Rights and tl-ic Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and by the speciafo:ed agencies, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Labour Organisation, and the non-governmen',tl organizations asso-· r,'ofjicial Records of the Gene;,.' 1issembly, Twenty-fifth Session, Supplemem No. 17 { A/ll\11., ciated with their efforts towards the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination;

Reaffirms. its intention to take the opportunity of the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination to promote throughout the world social justice based on absolute respect for the dignity of the individual.

30 November 1970.

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