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/76/149
of 18 December 2013, 69/160 of 18 December 2014, 70/139 of 17 December 2015,
71/179 of 19 December 2016, 72/156 of 19 December 2017, 73/157 of 17 December
2018, 74/136 of 18 December 2019 and 75/169 of 16 December 2020 on this issue, and
its resolutions 61/149 of 19 December 2006, 62/220 of 22 December 2007, 63/242 of
24 December 2008, 64/148 of 18 December 2009, 65/240 of 24 December 2010, 66/144
of 19 December 2011, 67/155 of 20 December 2012, 68/151 of 18 December 2013,
69/162 of 18 December 2014, 70/140 of 17 December 2015, 71/181 of 19 December
2016, 72/157 of 19 December 2017, 73/262 of 22 December 2018, 74/137 of
18 December 2019 and 75/237 of 31 December 2020, entitled “A global call for
concrete action for the 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”,
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 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 its integra l
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,
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 the establishment of
the conditions for the creation of the United Nations, designed to preve nt future wars
and save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,
Recalling that the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly coincides with
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal,
Noting that neo-Nazism is more than just the glorification of a past movement,
it is a contemporary phenomenon with strong vested interests in racial inequality and
an investment in gaining broad support for its false claims of racial superiority,
Recalling 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 paragraphs 84 to 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, 13 and 54,
Alarmed at the spread in many parts of the world of various extremist political
parties, movements, ideologies and groups of a racist or xenophobic character, including
neo-Nazis and skinhead groups, and at the fact that this trend has resulted in the
implementation of discriminatory measures and policies at the local or national level,
Noting with concern that, even where neo-Nazis or extremists do not formally
participate in government, the presence therein of extreme right-wing ideologues can
have the effect of injecting into governance and political discourse the same
ideologies that make neo-Nazism and extremism so dangerous,
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See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I.
See A/CONF.211/8, chap. I.
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