A/RES/69/16. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/16
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/16

General Assembly Distr.: General

1 December 2014

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 66 (b)

14-65060 (E)

*1465060*

Please recycle

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 November 2014

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.3)]

69/16. Programme of activities for the implementation of the

International Decade for People of African Descent

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013, by which it proclaimed

the International Decade for People of African Descent, commencing on 1 January

2015 and ending on 31 December 2024, with the theme “People of African descent:

recognition, justice and development”, to be officially launched immediately

following the general debate of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and

to this end emphasizing the opportunity for achieving important synergy in the

combating of all the scourges of racism through the effective observance of the

Decade, and in this regard contributing to the implementation of the Durban

Declaration and Programme of Action,

1

Recalling

also

its resolution 64/169 of 18 December 2009, by which it

proclaimed 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent, bearing in

mind the primacy of building on the gains achieved during the implementation of

the programme of activities for the Year, and to this end recalling paragraph 61 of its

resolution 66/144 of 19 December 2011, by which it encouraged the Working Group

of Experts on People of African Descent to develop a programme of action,

including a theme, for adoption by the Human Rights Council, with a view to

proclaiming the International Decade for People of African Descent before the end

of 2013,

Recalling further

its resolution 52/111 of 12 December 1997, by which it

decided to convene the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,

Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, and its resolutions 56/266 of 27 March 2002,

57/195 of 18 December 2002, 58/160 of 22 December 2003, 59/177 of 20 December

2004 and 60/144 of 16 December 2005, which guided the comprehensive follow-up

to the World Conference and the effective implementation of the Durban

Declaration and Programme of Action,

Cognizant

of its resolution 62/122 of 17 December 2007, by which it

designated 25 March as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of

Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,

_______________

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