Measures to Be Taken Against Nazism and Other Totalitarian Ideologies and Practices Based on Incitement to Hatred and Racial Intolerance

A/RES/2839(XXVI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1972.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Genocide Information Dissemination International Law Mass Media Nazism Principles Racial Discrimination Treaties

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15 operative paragraphs

Condemns all manifestations of the ideology and practice of nazism and racial intolerance, wherever they may occur;

Calls upon States to take steps to bring to light any evidence of the manifestation and dissemination of the ideology and practice of nazism and racial intolerance and to ensure that they are rigorously suppressed and prohibited;

Invites all eligible States which have not yet done so to ratify and to accede to the C~nvention on ~e Prevention and Punishment of the Cnme of Genocide and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as soon as possible, and requests them to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session on the measures taken by them to comply strictly with the provisions of those Conventions;

Invites all States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies to review their legislation, in the light of the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, with a view to determining whether, in the light of their circumstances, further legal measures are required to eradicate for all time the danger of a revival of nazism, racial intolerance or other ideologies based on terror;

Urgently calls upon those States concerned which have not yet done so to take immediate and effective measures, including legislative measures, with due regard to the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to prevent the activities of Nazi and racist organizations and groups;

Appeals to all States to prohibit activity by organizations propagating concepts of nazism and racial superiority;

Urges those States which are unable, for serious constitutional or other reasons, to implement immediately and fully the provisions of article 9 of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination-both of which condemn and outlaw all propaganda and all organizations based on ideas or theories of the superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination in any form-to take measures designed to ensure the speedy disbandment and disappearance of such organizations, these measures to provide, inter alia, that:

Such organizations should not be allowed to receive financial subsidies from organs of the State, private companies or individuals;

( b) Such organizations should not be allowed the use of public premises in which to establish their headquarters or conduct meetings of their members, the use of streets and squares in populated areas for holding demonstrations, or the use of public information media for disseminating propaganda;

( c) Such organizations should not be allowed to form militarized detachments on any pretext, and offenders should be subject to prosecution in the courts;

Persons employed by the State, particularly in the armed forces, should not be permitted to belong to such organizations; and all these measures to be taken only in so far as they are compatible with the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Labour Organisation and other specialized agencies to consider, within their respective spheres of competence,

the question of the danger of a revival of the concepts of nazism and racial intolerance;

Appeals to regional intergovernmental organizations to consider this question at the regional level;

Calls upon Governments, particularly those which control mass information media of world or continental scope, the United Nations and its various bodies, specialized agencies and international and national organizations to increase public awareness of the danger of a revival of nazism and racial intolerance, especially among young people, by education, by the preparation and dissemination of information on this subject and by recalling the history of nazism and its crimes and of racial intolerance;

Calls upon all States to take legislative and administrative measures to prevent activities of any kind in favour of nazism and the concept of racial superiority;

Decides to place the question of measures to be taken against ideologies and practices based on terror or on incitement to racial discrimination or any other form of group hatred on its agenda and under continuing review, and urges other competent organs of the United Nations to do likewise, so that appropriate measures can be taken promptly as required;

Confirms the principles of international law with regard to the eradication of nazism, and appeals to all States to act in conformity with those principles.

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