United Nations
A/RES/59/175
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 103 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/501)]
59/175. Measures to be taken against political platforms
and activities based on doctrines of superiority
and violent nationalist ideologies which are based
on racial discrimination or ethnic exclusiveness
and xenophobia, including neo-Nazism
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the United Nations emerged from the struggle against Nazism,
fascism, aggression and foreign occupation, and that the people expressed their
resolve in the Charter of the United Nations to save succeeding generations from the
scourge of war,
Aware of the determination proclaimed by the peoples of the world in the
Charter to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and
small and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Convinced that any doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is
scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and that
there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere,
Recognizing the fact that the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held at Durban, South Africa,
from 31 August to 8 September 2001, condemned political platforms and
organizations based on racism, xenophobia or doctrines of racial superiority and
related discrimination, as well as legislation and practices based on racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, as incompatible with democracy
and transparent and accountable governance, 1
Reaffirming in this regard that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion
and expression as well as the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association,
Underlining the key role that politicians and political parties can and ought to
play in combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
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See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.