A/RES/68/151. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Year: 2013
• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/151
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/151

General Assembly Distr.: General

14 February 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 67 (a)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/454)]

68/151. Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial

discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and

the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to

the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

all its previous resolutions on the comprehensive follow-up to the

World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related

Intolerance and the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and

Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference,

1

and in this regard

underlining the imperative need for their full and effective implementation,

Stressing

that the outcome of the World Conference against Racism, Racial

Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance has the same status as the

outcomes of all the major United Nations conferences, summits and special sessions

in the human rights and social fields,

Recalling

the three Decades for Action to Combat Racism and Racial

Discrimination previously declared by the General Assembly, and regretting that the

Programmes of Action for those Decades were not fully implemented and that their

objectives are yet to be attained,

Reiterating

that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights

and have the potential to contribute constructively to the development and well-being

of their societies, and that any doctrine of racial superiority is scientifically false,

morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous and must be rejected, together

with theories that attempt to determine the existence of separate human races,

Underlining

the intensity, magnitude and organized nature of slavery and the

slave trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, and the associated historical

injustices, as well as the untold suffering caused by colonialism and apartheid, and

that Africans and people of African descent, Asians and people of Asian descent and

indigenous peoples continue to be victims of the cascading effects of those legacies,

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