A/HRC/RES/57/24
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 October 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-seventh session
9 September–11 October 2024
Agenda item 9
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 10 October 2024
57/24.
Education as a tool to prevent racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action and other relevant international instruments, and reaffirming the
universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness and interdependence of all human rights,
Acknowledging the importance of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
as a milestone in highlighting the essential role of education in the common fight against
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013, in which the
Assembly proclaimed the International Decade for People of African Descent, commencing
on 1 January 2015 and ending on 31 December 2024, with the theme “People of African
descent: recognition, justice and development”, resolution 69/16 of 18 November 2014, in
which the Assembly adopted the programme of activities for the implementation of the
International Decade for People of African Descent, and resolution 78/323 of 13 August
2024, in which the Assembly proclaimed 25 July as the International Day of Women and
Girls of African Descent,
Recalling also all previous resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the elimination of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and on the right to education,
Reaffirming the human right of everyone to education, which is enshrined in, inter
alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities, the Convention against Discrimination in Education of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations
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