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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/81
26 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 108
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/617)]
51/81.
Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial
Discrimination
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the objectives set forth in the Charter of the United
Nations of achieving international cooperation in solving problems of an
economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and
encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without
distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Reaffirming also its firm determination and its commitment to eradicate
totally and unconditionally racism, in all its forms, and racial
discrimination,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination2 and the
Convention against Discrimination in Education adopted by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 14 December 1960,3
Recalling also the outcome of the two World Conferences to Combat Racism
and Racial Discrimination, held at Geneva in 1978 and 1983,
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 429, No. 6193.
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