World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the Comprehensive Implementation of and Follow-Up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

E/DEC/2003/246View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 14g Human rights, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2004–2006

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2005/272

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2006	E/DEC/2005/272	World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action	146	71%Compare
2005	E/DEC/2004/272	World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action	123	22%Compare
2004	E/DEC/2003/246	World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action	434	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

17 subjects

Anti-Discrimination Measures Conferences Education Groups of Experts Human Rights Violations International Decades International Instruments Poverty Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Racial Discrimination Reservations and Declarations Special Rapporteurs Standards Treaty-Monitoring Bodies Working Groups Xenophobia

What’s in this document?

8 paragraphs

At its 46th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2003, the Economic and Social Council took note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/30 of 23 April 2003,46 and endorsed the Commission’s decision:

(a) To request the Intergovernmental Working Group to make recommendations with a view to the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action50 and to prepare complementary international standards to strengthen and update international instruments against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in all their aspects, to convene its upcoming sessions for an initial period of three years, while encouraging it to work effectively to fulfil its mandate, to convene its second session of ten working days, focusing on areas decided upon in its recommendations, namely, poverty, education and

50 See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr. 1, chap. I.

complementary standards, and to report on progress in this regard at the sixtieth session of the Commission;

(b) That the working group of experts on people of African descent should convene its future sessions for an initial period of three years, while encouraging it to work effectively towards the fulfilment of its mandate, and also the Commission’s decision to request the working group to convene its second session of ten working days and to report to the Commission at its sixtieth session on progress towards the fulfilment of the mandate of the working group.

The Council also endorsed the Commission’s recommendations that the General Assembly, after considering the analytical report of the Secretary-General51 on the extent of implementation of the Programme of Action for the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, to be submitted pursuant to Assembly resolution 57/195 of 18 December 2002, consider the closure of the Third Decade.

The Council also endorsed the Commission’s recommendation that the General Assembly, in the coming decade of activities to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, place emphasis on the concrete implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on the basis of a broad-based consensus on the importance of the anti-discrimination struggle worldwide.

The Council also endorsed the Commission’s request that the Secretary-General provide the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance with all the necessary human and financial assistance to carry out his mandate efficiently, effectively and expeditiously and to enable him to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its fiftyeighth session.

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