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 76 Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, published in 1983.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1976–1983

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?

8 subjects

Apartheid Conferences International Decades National Liberation Movements Programmes of Action Racial Discrimination Self-Determination of Peoples Work Organization

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Proclaims that the elimination of all forms of racism and of discrimination based on race and the attainment of the objectives 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 independence;

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 the States of the region, particularly Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Seychelles and Zambia;

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

Once again invites all Member $tales, United Nations organs, specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations, national liberation movements. anti-apartheid

VI. 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 and the strengthening of the embargo on arms, with a view to putting an end to all military and nuclear collaboration with South Africa;

Reaffirms the decision7 by which it approved the Declaration of the International Seminar on the Implementation and Reinforcement of the Arms Embargo against South Africa, 8 held in London from 1 to 3 April 1981 under the auspices of the Special Committee against Apartheid;

Vigorously condemns the collaboration of certain Western States, 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 that 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 with appreciation of the report of the Preparatory Sub-Committee for the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination on its first session;9 15.

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

Further requests the Secretary-General to appoint, after consultation with the regional groups, in 1982, 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 non-governmental 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 Commit- , Resolution 36/8, para. 9.

8 A/36/190-S/14442, annex.

9 E/1982/26. tee 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-eighth session, as a matter of high priority, the item entitled ''Implementation of the Programme for the Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination" .

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