Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

A/RES/3377(XXX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1976–1983

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/37/40

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1983	A/RES/37/40	Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	1,543	84%Compare
1981	A/RES/36/8	Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	1,656	16%Compare
1979	A/RES/34/24	Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	3,181	7%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/98	Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	395	17%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/77	Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	1,052	22%Compare

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5 subjects

Apartheid International Decades Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Racial Discrimination

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

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Condemns the intolerable conditions which concrimination, 2 the Intemational Convention on the Suptinue to prevail in southern Africa and elsewhere, inpression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid8 cluding the denial of the right to self-determination and all other relevant instruments; and the inhumane and odious application of apartheid

Formulating and executing plans to realize the and racial discrimination;

policy measures and goals contained in the Program.me

Reaffirms its rccognition of the legitimacy of the for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and struggle of oppressc<l peoples to liberate thcmselves Racial Discrimination, including the advisability of esfrom racism, racial <liscrimination, apartheid, colonialtablishing nationat arrangements to follow up the impleism and alicn domination;

mcntation of the Programme for the Decade;

~ Kcsolution 2106 A CXX), annex.

( h) Reviewing intemal laws and regula~ons wi~ a view to identifying and rescinding those which provide for, give rise to, or inspire racial discrimination or apartheid;

Ensuring the cessation of all discriminatory measures against migrant workers and extending to them treatment equal to that provided for nationals of the host country with regard to human rights and to the provisions of their labour legislation;

Complying, when due, with the provisions of paragraph 18 (e) of the Programme for the Decade, which call for Govemments to forward a report every two years on the action taken under the Programme for the Decade, on the basis of a questionnaire circulated by the Secretary-General;

Educating, in particular, youth in the spirit of equality and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Urges Member States which are parties to the Intemational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to continue to comply

fully with their obligations under the Convention and, in particular, to submit their reports within the timetable laid down under article 9;

Also urges United Nations organs, the specialized agencies and intergovernmental and · non-govemmental organizations to ensure the continuation of their activities related to the Decade with emphasis on, inter alia:

Providing moral and material support to the national liberation movements and victims of apartheid and racial discrimination;

( b) Assisting and conducting vigorous educational and information campaigns to dispel racial prejudice and to involve public opinion in the struggle against racism and racial discrimination, in particular to organize an intemational competition for selecting an appropriate emblem for the Decade and to print posters containing the emblem for wide distribution;

Examining the socio-economic and colonial roots of racism, apartheid and racial discrimination with a view to eliminating them;

Requests national sports federations of Member States to refuse systematically to participate in all sports or other activities together with the representatives of the racist régime of South A.frica;

W elcomes any contributions and suggestions related to the Programme for the Decade by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Special Committee against Apartheid, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities;

Requests the Secretary-General to draw on the expertise of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities while undertaking the relevant activities of the Decade;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session a report containing proposals to implement efficiently paragraph 17 of the Programme for the Decade, which calls for the establishment of an intemational fund on a voluntary basis; lleloludom adopted on the reporta of the TbJrd Committee

1 O. Reiterates the call in its resolution 3057

(XXVIII) to make adequate resources available to the Secretary-General to enable him to undertake the activities entrusted to him under the Programme for the Decade;

Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights, in collaboration with the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to study ways and means of ensuring the implementation of United Nations resolutions bearing on apartheid, racisrn and racial discrimination with a view to facilitating the examination of this question by the General Assembly in accordance with paragraph 18 (i) of the Programme for the Decade;

Appeals to Governments and private organizations in a position to do so to make voluntary contributions of funds which would make it possible to carry out all of the activities provided for in the Programme for the Decade, especially in paragraphs 15 and 16 thereof, with regard to research, studies, education, training and information directed towards the achievement of the goals of the Decade and designed to assist the victims of racial discrimination and racism;

Decides to consider at its thirty-first session, as a matrer of high priority, the question entitled "Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination".

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