Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling
contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
A/RES/71/179
related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow -up to the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action”,
Acknowledging other important initiatives of the General Assembly aimed at
raising awareness about the suffering of victims of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance and all forms of discrimination, including in the
historical perspective, in particular regarding commemoration of the victims of
slavery and the transatlantic slave trade,
Recalling the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the Judgment of the
Tribunal, which recognized as criminal, inter alia, the SS organization and all its
integral parts, including the Waffen SS, through its officially accepted members
implicated in or with knowledge of the commission of war crimes and crimes
against humanity connected with the Second World War, as well as other relevant
provisions of the Charter and the Judgment,
Recalling also 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, 9 in
particular paragraph 2 of the Declaration and paragraph 86 of the Programme of
Action, as well as the relevant provisions of the outcome document of the Durban
Review Conference of 24 April 2009, 10 in particular paragraphs 11 and 54,
Alarmed, in this regard, at the spread in many parts of the world of various
extremist political parties, movements and groups, including neo -Nazis and
skinhead groups, as well as racist extremist movements and ideologies,
Deeply concerned by all recent manifestations of violence and terrorism
incited by violent nationalism, racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, including
during sports events,
Recognizing with deep concern the alarming increase in instances of
discrimination, intolerance and extremist violence motivated by anti-Semitism,
Islamophobia and Christianophobia and prejudices against persons of other religions
and beliefs,
Recalling that the seventy-first session of the General Assembly coincides with
the seventieth anniversary of the Judgment of the Nur emberg Tribunal,
Mindful of the horrors of the Second World War, and stressing in this regard
that the victory over Nazism in the Second World War contributed to establishing
the conditions for the creation of the United Nations, designed to prevent futur e
wars and save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,
1.
Reaffirms the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration 9 and of the
outcome document of the Durban Review Conference, 10 in which States condemned
the persistence and resurgence of neo-Nazism, neo-Fascism and violent nationalist
ideologies based on racial and national prejudice and stated that those phenomena
could never be justified in any instance or in any circumstances;
2.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur of
the Human Rights Council on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,
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9
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
See A/CONF.211/8, chap. I.
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