A/RES/73/262
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/587)]
73/262.
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 in particular its resolutions
66/144 of 19 December 2011 and 67/155 of 20 December 2012, and in this regard
underlining the imperative need for their full and effective implementation,
Acknowledging that 2018 marks the centenary of the life and legacy of Nelson
Mandela, who dedicated his life to the struggle for freedom, human dignity, equality
and justice, as well as the promotion, protection and fulfilment of all human rights
and fundamental freedoms,
Recalling the suffering of the victims of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, and the need to honour their memory,
Calling upon States to honour the memory of victims of the historical injustices
of slavery, the slave trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and
apartheid,
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
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