A/HRC/RES/52/37
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 April 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-second session
27 February–4 April 2023
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 4 April 2023
52/37.
Mandate of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective
Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
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,
Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2002/68 of 25 April 2002
and 2003/30 of 23 April 2003,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 1/5 of 30 June 2006, 11/12 of 18
June 2009, 22/30 of 22 March 2013, 34/34 of 23 March 2017 and 43/35 of 22 June 2020, in
which the Council renewed and extended the mandate of the Intergovernmental Working
Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 76/226 of 24 December 2021,
Encouraging the Working Group to enhance its efforts towards the effective
realization of its mandate, and to report regularly in this regard to the Human Rights Council
and the General Assembly,
1.
Decides to renew the mandate of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the
Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action for a further
period of three years;
2.
Also decides that the Chair of the Working Group may request that the annual
session of the Working Group be split into two full one-week sessions;
3.
Further decides that the Chair of Working Group may call full-day informal
intersessional consultations if needed to further enhance the elaboration of a draft United
Nations declaration on the promotion of and full respect for the human rights of people of
African descent;
4.
Requests the Chair of the Working Group to submit an annual report on its
sessions to the Human Rights Council;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to provide the Working Group with all the human resources, technical and
financial assistance necessary for the effective implementation of its mandate;
GE.23-06782(E)