A/RES/72/157
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/437)]
72/157.
A global call for concrete action 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,
Recalling also the suffering of the victims of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, and the need to honour their memory,
Calling upon States to honour the memory of victims of the historical injustices
of slavery, the slave trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and
apartheid,
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, and that the Durban Declaration and Programme
of Action remains a solid basis and the only instructive outcome of the World
Conference, which prescribes comprehensive measures for combating all the scourges
of racism and adequate remedies for victims,
Underlining the need to promote tolerance and respect for diversity and the need
to seek common ground among and within civilizations in order to address common
challenges to humanity that threaten shared values, universal human rights and the
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See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I.
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