United Nations
A/RES/70/140
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/487)]
70/140. 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,
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,
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 have 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
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See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
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