Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 83 Implementation of the Programme of Action for the 2nd Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

15 versions · 1983–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/56/265

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/265	Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	634	19%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/81	Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	1,595	71%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/136	Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	1,374	31%Compare
1995	A/RES/49/146	Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	3,613	79%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/91	Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination	4,023	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Apartheid Budget Contributions Cameroon Children Conferences Consultations Human Rights Education Humanitarian Assistance International Decades Laws and Regulations Legal Remedies Manuals Migrant Workers Migrant Workers' Families Model Laws Racial Discrimination Teaching Materials Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

24 operative paragraphs

Resolves once again that ali forms of racism and racial discrimination, particularly in their institutionalized form, such as apartheid, or resulting from official doctrines of racial superiority or exclusivity, are among the most serious violations of human rights in the contemporary world and must be combated by ali available means;

Decides that the international community, in general, and the United Nations, in particular, should continue to give the highest priority to programmes for combating racism, racial discrimination and apartheid, and to intensify their etforts, during the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, to provide assistance and relief to the victims of racism and ali forms of racial discrimination and apartheid, especially in South Africa and Namibia and in occupied territories and territories under alien domination;

Appealsto ali Governments and to international and non-governmental organizations to increase and intensify their activities to combat racism, racial discrimination and apartheid and to provide relief and assistance to the victims of these evils;

Takes note ofthe report submitted by the Secretary- General containing information on the activities of Governments, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, as well as United Nations organs, to give etfect to the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination; 8 5.

Acknowledges the further progress made in preparing the study on the effects of racial discrimination in the field of education, training and employment as it atfects the children of minorities, in particular those of migrant workers, 10 authorizes the Secretary-General to make further etforts to obtain additional information and views from Govemments, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and to solicit relevant information and views from those that have not yet replied, and requests him to submit the final study to the General Assembly at its forty-second session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit bis study on the role of priva te group action to combat racism and racial discrimination 11 to Govemments, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council in order to obtain their views and an indication from them of further relevant materials, and to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-third session a final report on this topic;

Expresses its gratitude to the Government of Cameroon for acting as host to the Seminar on International Assistance and Support to Peoples and Movements Struggling against Colonialism, Racism, Racial Discrimination and Apartheid, held at Yaoundé from 28 April to 9 May 1986;

Expresses its satisfaction at the convening of the Seminar and invites the Secretary-General to publicize widely the report of the Seminar;I2 9.

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare and issue as soon as possible a collection of model legislation for the guidance of Govemments in the enactment of further legislation against racial discrimination;

Reiterates its invitation to the Secretary-General to organize in New York in 1987 a training course for legislative draftsmen with the aim of focusing on the preparation of national legislation against racism and racial discrimination;

Renews its invitation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to expedite the preparation of teaching materials and teaching aids to promote teaching, training and educational activities on human rights and against racism and racial discrimination, with particular emphasis on activities at the primary and secondary levels of education;

Reiterates its request to the Sub-Commission on Prevention ofDiscrimination and Protection ofMinorities of the Commission on Human Rights to consider the possible need for updating the study on racial discrimination; 13 13.

Once again authorizes the Secretary-General to organize in 1988 a global consultation on racial discrimination involving representatives of the United Nations system,

regional intergovemmental organizations and interested non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, to focus on the co-ordination of international activities to combat racism and racial discrimination;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to envisage the organization, within the framework of its plan of activities for the period 1985-1989, of a seminar on cultural dialogue between the countries of origin and the host countries of migrant workers;

Emphasizes the importance of adequate recourse procedures for victims of racism and racial discrimination and therefore requests the Secretary-General, in the light of the results of the seminars held on this topic, to prepare and finalize, with the appropriate assistance of qualified experts if possible, a handbook of recourse procedures;

Reiterates its invitation to the Secretary-General to proceed with the implementation of the activities outlined in his report on the plan of activities for the period 1985-198914 and requests him to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-second session a report on the outstanding activities;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council, at its first regular session of 1987, a report on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination outlining a proposed plan of activities for the period 1990-1993;

Considers that voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination are indispensable for the implementation of the above-mentioned plans;

Strongly appeals to ali Governments, organizations and individuals in a position to do so to contribute generously to the Trust Fund and, to this end, requests the Secretary-General to undertake appropriate contacts and initiatives to encourage contributions;

Requests the Economic and Social Council, during the period of the Second Decade, to submit annual reports to the General Assembly, containing, inter afia:

An enumeration of the activities undertaken or contemplated to achieve the objectives of the Second Decade, including the activities of Governments, United Nations bodies, the specialized agencies and other international and regional organizations, as well as nongovernmental organizations;

A review and appraisal of those activities;

lts suggestions and recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides that the item entitled "lmplementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination" should be on its agenda throughout the Second Decade and should be considered as a matter of the highest priority at its fortysecond session.

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12 208 12 209

Records of1he General Conference. Elevenlh Session. Resolulions, p. 119

7 /bid., chap. 11. B A/41/551.

11 A/41/550. 9 A/41/550 and A/41/552.

12 A/41/571, annex. 10 A/41/552.

13 United Natinn, publicat10n. Sales No. E. 76.XIV.2.

\j See A/41/65-+. ,rnne>. 11. 10 lbid., annex J. 17 United Nations publication. Sales No F.Rt, XIV 4

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