A/HRC/RES/30/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirtieth session
Agenda item 9
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 2 October 2015
30/17.
Forum on people of African descent in the diaspora
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all its previous resolutions and those of the erstwhile Commission on
Human Rights on the subject of the elimination of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, and stressing in this regard the primacy of the full and
effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions of the General Assembly on the imperative need
to eliminate racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
Reaffirming also in the above context all previous resolutions of the General
Assembly on the International Decade for People of African Descent,
Recalling paragraph 7 of the Durban Programme of Action,
Underlining in particular General Assembly resolutions 68/237 of 23 December
2013 and 69/16 of 18 November 2014, by which the Assembly proclaimed the International
Decade for People of African Descent and adopted its programme of activities,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 56/266 of 27 March 2002 and 59/177 of 20
December 2004 on the appointment and the mandate of the independent eminent experts in
mobilizing the necessary political will required for the successful implementation of the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,
1.
Commends the important work undertaken by the independent eminent
experts in the execution of their mandate, and welcomes their report;1
2.
Requests the Secretary-General, through the General Assembly, to review
and rescind the mandate of the independent eminent experts for the successful
implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and to allocate its
resources to the establishment of a forum on people of African descent, consistent with
paragraph 29 (i) of the annex to Assembly resolution 69/16;
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Reissued for technical reasons on 22 October 2015.
A/HRC/26/56.
GE.15-17560(E)
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