Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 74 Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, published in 1977.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 1971–1998

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/110

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/110	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	979	32%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/137	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	1,033	63%Compare
1995	A/RES/49/145	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	743	—
1993	A/RES/47/79	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	—	—
1992	A/RES/46/83	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	—	—

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2 subjects

Racial Discrimination Treaties

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10 operative paragraphs

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Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;

Takes note also of the part of the report relating to Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories and to

10 The Working Group on the Implementation of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid consists of the following members: Cuba, Nigeria and Syrian Arab Republic.

Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/32/18). all other Territories to which General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 applies, draws the attention of the relevant United Nations bodies to the opinions and recommendations of the Committee relating to those Territories and stresses the necessity of providing the Committee with sufficient information in order to enable it to discharge fully its responsibilities under article 15 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;

Commends the Committee for furthering the implementation of the Convention by requesting the States parties to the Convention to include in their reports under article 9 information on the measures which they have adopted to give effect to article 7 of the Convention in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information with a view to combating prejudices which lead to racial discrimination, promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations and racial or ethnic groups, and propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention;

Welcomes decision 2 (XVI) of 9 August 1977 in which the Committee decided in principle to give general distribution to the reports of States parties to the Convention and other official documents of the Committee which would bring about greater awareness by world public opinion of the problem of racial discrimination and mobilize it on the realization of the goals and principles contained in the Convention;

Welcomes all efforts by the Committee to focus the greatest attention on the just cause of the peoples struggling against the oppression of the colonialist and racist regimes in southern Africa;

Invites States parties to the Convention to provide necessary information to the Committee in accordance with article 9 of the Convention, taking into account in particular:

General recommendation III of 18 August 1972 and decision 2 (XI) of 7 April 1975 on the status of their relations with the racist regimes in southern Africa;

General recommendation IV of 16 August (b) 1973 on the demographic composition of their population;

( c) General recommendation V of 13 April 1977 on measures adopted to give effect to article 7 of the Convention;

Expresses its grave concern that some States parties to the Convention, for reasons beyond their control, are prevented from fulfilling their obligation under the Convention in parts of their respective territories, endorses the relevant decisions of the Committee and recalls General Assembly resolution 2784

(XXVI) of 6 December 1971 and Assembly resolution 3266 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974 concerning the situation in the Golan Heights;

Invites the States parties to the Convention to observe fully the provisions of the Convention and other international instruments and agreements to which they are parties concerning the elimination of all forms of discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin;

Invites all States which are not yet parties tn the Convention to ratify or accede to it and, pending

such ratification or accession, to be guided by the basic provisions of the Convention in their internal and foreign policies.

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