A/RES/75/314
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 August 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia
and related intolerance: comprehensive implementation of
and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme
of Action
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 2 August 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.119/Rev.1)]
75/314.
Establishment of the Permanent Forum of People of
African Descent
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with
the Charter,
Recalling its resolution 52/111 of 12 December 1997, by which it decided to
convene the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance, and its resolutions 56/266 of 27 March 2002, 57/195 of
18 December 2002, 58/160 of 22 December 2003, 59/177 of 20 December 2004 and
60/144 of 16 December 2005, which guided the comprehensive follow -up to the
World Conference and the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action, 1
Recalling also its resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013, by which it
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”, to be officially launched immediately
following the general debate of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, and
to this end emphasizing the opportunity for achieving important synergy in the
combating of all the scourges of racism through the effective observance of the
Decade, and in this regard contributing to the implementation of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action,
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See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I.
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