International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

A/RES/69/161View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66a Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, published in 2015.

What else is in this group?

14 documents · 1966–2017

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2017).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/RES/71/180	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	263	–
2015	A/RES/69/161	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	318	–
2013	A/RES/67/156	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	1,941	–
2011	A/RES/65/200	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	2,051	–
2009	A/RES/63/243	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	1,704	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

International Obligations Racial Discrimination Treaty-Monitoring Bodies Xenophobia

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General² on the status of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;³

²A/69/329.

³United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.

Also takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the financial situation of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,⁴ and invites the Secretary-General to follow up with States parties that are in arrears, as articulated in the report, to fulfil their outstanding financial obligations under article 8, paragraph 6, of the Convention;

⁴A/69/328.

Further takes note of the reports of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its eighty-first and eighty-second⁵ and its eighty-third and eighty-fourth⁶ sessions;

⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/68/18).

⁶Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/69/18).

Reiterates, in the run-up to the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention, its call for the universal ratification and effective implementation of the Convention by all States parties to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination;

Invites the Chair of the Committee to present an oral report on the work of the Committee and to engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-first session under the item entitled “Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”;

Decides to consider, at its seventy-first session, under the item entitled “Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, the reports of the Committee on its eighty-fifth and eighty-sixth and its eighty-seventh and eighty-eighth sessions, the report of the Secretary-General on the financial situation of the Committee, should the financial situation of the Committee change, and the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the Convention.

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