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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 74 Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, published in 1981.

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Apartheid Conferences International Decades Programmes of Action Racial Discrimination

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

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Proclaims that the elimination of all forms of racism and of discrimination based on race and the attainment of the obj~tives of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and of the programme of activities to be undertaken during the second half of the Decade are matters of high priority for the international community and, therefore, for the United Nations;

Strongly condemns the policies of apartheid, racism and racial discrimination pursued in southern Africa, all occupied Arab territories and elsewhere, including the denial of the right of peoples to self-determination and independenc_e;

Reaffirms its strong support for the national liberation struggle against racism, racial discrimination, apartheid, colonialism and foreign domination and for self-determination by all available means, including armed struggle;

Reaffirms the inalienable right of the Namibian people to self-determination and independence;

Vigorously condemns the repeated acts of aggression committed by South Africa against neighbouring States, particularly against Angola, Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia;

Expresses its profound solidarity with the front-line States that are victims of the racist aggression and destabilization attempts of the Pretoria regime;

Once again invites all Member States, United Nations organs, specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations, national liberation movements, anti-apartheid and anti-racist organizations and other solidarity groups to strengthen and enlarge the scope of their activities in support of the objectives of the Programme for the Decade;

Again requests the Security Council to consider. as a matter of urgency, the imposition of full mandatory sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations against the racist regime of South Africa. including, in particular, an embargo on the delivery of oil and oil products to South Africa and the strengthening of the embargo on arms, with a view to putting an end to all military and nuclear collaboration with South Africa;

Approves the Declaration of the International Seminar on the Implementation and Reinforcement of the Arms Embargo against South Africa, 3 held in London from I to 3 April 1981 under the sponsorship of the Special Committee against Apartheid;

Vigorously condemns the collaboration of certain Western countries, Israel and other States and of transnational corporations and other organizations which are maintaining or continuing to increase their collaboration with the racist regime of South Africa, particularly in the political, economic, military and nuclear fields, thereby encouraging that regime to persist in its inhuman and criminal policy of brutal oppression of the peoples of southern Africa and in its denial of human rights;

Calls once again upon all Governments which have not yet done so to take legislative. administrative and other measures in respect of their nationals and the bodies corporate under their jurisdiction that own enterprises in southern Africa in order to put an end to such enterprises;

Calls upon all States to adopt, as a matter of high priority, measures declaring punishable by law any dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred and outlawing organizations based on racial hatred and prejudice, including neo-Nazi and Fascist organizations and private clubs and institutions established on the basis of racial criteria or propagating ideas of racial discrimination and apartheid;

Invites Member States, the organs and bodies of the United Nations system and the specialized agencies to continue their efforts with a view to the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and their families;

Takes note of the progress made by the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1981 in connection with the preparatory work for the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

Decides that the Preparatory Sub-Committee for the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, established by the President of the Economic and Social Council in accordance with Council decision 1981 / 130 of 6 May 1981, shall hold its first session in New York during the first quarter of I 982, for a period of two weeks, and shall report to the Council at its first regular session of 1982, the Council being the Preparatory Committee for the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Preparatory Sub-Committee with all necessary assistance;

Further requests the Secretary-General to appoint in 1982, after consultation with the regional groups, a Secretary-General of the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, who shall have the rank of Assistant Secretary-General and shall be responsible for the organization of the Conference and co-ordination with Member States, organs and bodies of the United Nations. specialized agencies and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations;

Invites Member States to continue to co-operate with the Secretary-General as part of the Programme for the Decade and the preparations for the Conference;

Invites the appropriate organs and bodies of the United Nations system to contribute to the preparations for the Conference;

Expresses its satisfaction to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. the Special Committee against Apartheid, the United Nations Council for Namibia, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Commission on Human Rights, through its Ad Hoe Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa, for their contribution to the implementation of the Programme for the Decade and invites them to include in their activities the preparations for the Conference;

Decides to consider at its thirty-seventh session the status of preparations for the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

Decides to consider at its thirty-seventh session, as a matter of high priority, the item entitled "Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination''.

Resolution No.

Tille Item Dau ,f adoption

361134 National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights 79 (b)

14 December 1981 184 (N36/73I) 36/135 Alternative approaches and ways and means in the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental free- 79 (a)

14 December 198 I 184 doms (A/36/73 I) 36/136 New international humanitarian order (A/36/786)

138 14 December 198 I 185

151 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (A/36/792)

12 16 December 198 I 185 The right to education (A/36/792) ..

12 I 6 December 198 I 185 36/152 36/153 Assistance to refugees in Somalia (A/36/792)

16 December 1981 186 36/154 Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights (Al36i792)

16 December 1981 186

155 Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador (A/36/792)

12 16 December 198 I 187 Humanitarian assistance to refugees in Djibouti (A/361792)

16 December 1981 188 36/156 36/157 Protection of human rights in Chile (A/36/792)

16 December 1981 188 36/158 Situation of refugees in the Sudan (A/36/792)

16 December 1981 189 36/159 Social aspects of the development activities of the United Nations (A/36/792)

12 16 December 198 I 189 36/160 Measures to improve the situation and ensure the human rights and dignity of all migrant workers (N36/792)

16 December 1981 190 36/161 Assistance to displaced persons in Ethiopia (N36/792)

16 December 1981 190 36/162 Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terror (N36/792, A/36/L.55)

16 December 1981 191 36/163 Question of involuntary or enforced disappearances (A/36/792)

16 December 1981 192 36/164 Missing persons in Cyprus (A/361792) ....

16 December 1981 192 36/165 Question of the international legal protection of the human rights of individuals who are not citizens of the country in which they live (A/36/792)

16 December 1981 192 36/166 Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products (A/36/792) ..

12 16 December 198 I 193 36/167 Draft Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally (N36/792)

16 December 1981 193 36/168 International Drug Abuse Control Strategy (N36/792)

16 December 1981 194 36/169 Observance of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (N36/792)

16 December 1981 195 36/170 Assistance to student refugees in southern Africa (A/361792) .

16 December 1981 196

2 Report of the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Geneva, 14-25 August 1978 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.79.XIV.2), chap. II.

' A/36/l90-S/14442, annex.

' A/32/61, annex I. • See A/36/534, annex I.

0 See A/36/534. annex II.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

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