United Nations
A/RES/61/147
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 65 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/441)]
61/147. Inadmissibility of certain practices that contribute
to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 3
and other relevant human rights instruments,
Recalling the provisions of Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2004/16
of 16 April 2004 4 and 2005/5 of 14 April 2005, 5 as well as General Assembly
resolution 60/143 of 16 December 2005 on this issue and Assembly resolution
60/144 of 16 December 2005 entitled “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”,
Recalling also the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Judgement of
the Tribunal, which recognized the Waffen SS organization and all its integral parts
as criminal and declared it responsible for many war crimes and crimes against
humanity,
Recalling further the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance on 8 September 2001, 6 in
particular paragraph 2 of the Declaration and paragraph 86 of the Programme of
Action,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
5
Ibid., 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigendum (E/2005/23 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
6
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
2
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