A/HRC/RES/36/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 October 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11–29 September 2017
Agenda item 9
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2017
36/23.
Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on People of
African Descent
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 56/266 of 27 March 2002, in which the
Assembly endorsed the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, reaffirming the
commitments contained therein with regard to people of African descent; Assembly
resolution 57/195 of 18 December 2002, in which the Assembly invited all relevant organs,
organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to become involved in the follow-up
to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance; and all previous Human Rights Council resolutions on the comprehensive
follow-up to the World Conference and the effective implementation of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action,
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, in particular Commission
resolutions 2002/68 of 25 April 2002 and 2003/30 of 23 April 2003, and Council
resolutions 9/14 of 18 September 2008, 18/28 of 17 October 2011 and 27/25 of 26
September 2014 on the mandate of the Working Group of Experts on People of African
Descent,
Reaffirming the obligations of States under relevant international human rights
instruments, in particular the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 2106 (XX) of 21
December 1965,
Underlining that the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at the
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance, remains the only instructive outcome of the World Conference against Racism,
Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance that prescribes comprehensive
measures and remedies for the effective combating of all the scourges of racism at all
levels,
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