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 80a Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, published in 1983.

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	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Apartheid Conferences Discrimination Indigenous Peoples Israel Migrant Workers Minorities Non-Self-Governing Territories Palestinians Racial Discrimination

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth sessions;

Commends the Committee for its contribution to the elimination of all forms of discrimination based on race. colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, wherever it exists;

Strongly condemns the policy of apartheid in South Africa and Namibia as the most abhorrent form of racial discrimination and urges all Member States to adopt effec tive political, economic and other measures in order to se cure the elimination of that policy and to achieve full implementation of the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and other United Nations bodies;

Calls upon the United Nations bodies concerned to ensure that the Committee is supplied with all relevant in formation on all the Territories to which General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 applies and urges the administering Powers to co-operate with these bodies by providing all necessary information in order to enable the Committee to discharge fully its responsibilities under article 15 of the International Convention on the Elim ination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;

Commends the Committee for its continuous endeav ours towards the elimination of apartheid, racism and racial discrimination in southern Africa and the implementation of United Nations resolutions relating to the liberation and independence of Namibia;

Takes note with satisfaction of the efforts of the Com mittee aimed at securing the prosperity of national or ethnic minorities and indigenous populations through the imple mentation of the principles and provisions of the Convention;

Expresses grave concern at the Israeli policy of de fiance of the basic principles and objectives of the Conven tion, as reflected in the report of the Committee, and calls for the respect and preservation of the national and cultural identity of the Palestinian people;

Welcomes the efforts of the Committee aimed at the elimination of all forms of discrimination against migrant workers and their families, the promotion of their rights on a non-discriminatory basis and the achievement of their full equality and of the possibility to preserve their cultural characteristics;

Commends the States parties to the Convention on the measures taken to ensure within their jurisdiction the availability of appropriate recourse procedures for the vic tims of racial discrimination;

Calls upon all Member States to adopt effective legislative, socio-economic and other necessary measures in order to ensure the elimination or prevention of discrim ination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin;

Calls upon the States parties to the Convention to protect fully, by the adoption of relevant legislative and other measures, the rights of national or ethnic minorities, as well as the rights of indigenous populations;

Reiterates its invitation to the States parties to the Convention to furnish the Committee, in accordance with its general guidelines, with information on the implemen tation of the provisions of the Convention, including infor mation on the demographic composition of their population and on their relations with the racist regime of South Africa;

Takes note with appreciation of the Committee's contribution to the work of the Preparatory Sub-Committee for the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and to the regional seminars held in implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

Welcomes the decision of the Committee to con tribute to the Second World Conference by preparing a study

on the implementation of articles 4 and 7 of the Convention25 and reiterates its request to the Committee to explore the possibility of also preparing for the Conference a study on the implementation of subparagraph (e) of article 5;

• Takes note of decision 1 (XXVI) of 19 August 1982 of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Dis crimination, 26 in which the Committee requested the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Government of the Philippines, to explore the possibility of arranging for the twenty-eighth session of the Committee to be held at Manila immediately prior to the holding of the Second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.

22 A/37/148.

23 Resolution 3057 (XXVIII), annex. Supplement No. /8 (A/37/18).

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25 Ibid .. chap. VI.

26 Ibid., chap. IX.

27 Report of the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Dis crimination, Geneva, 14-25 Au!/USI /978 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.XIV.2). chap. ll. 28 A/36/496-S/14686, annexes 1-111. '° E/1982/26. 10 A/371149 and Corr. I 11 EICN .411286, annex

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