United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/RES/36/24
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
36/24.
From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action
against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance
The Human Rights Council,
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,
Recalling also the General Assembly resolutions in this regard, and the imperative
need for their full and effective implementation,
Emphasizing the primacy of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination as a principal international instrument to combat all the
scourges of racism, and in this regard noting with concern that the commitment made at the
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance to achieve universal ratification of this primary instrument by 2005 was
regrettably not fulfilled, and underlining the imperative need to elaborate complementary
international standards as instructed by paragraph 199 of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action,
Concerned that many years have lapsed since the adoption of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action, and regretting in this regard that its objectives have
not been met,
Concerned also, in the above context, at the increasing incidents of racially
motivated hatred in all its forms and manifestations, some of which have taken violent
forms with concomitant racial profiling,
Underlining the importance of removing legal obstacles and eliminating
discriminatory practices that hamper individuals and groups, in particular people of African
descent, from participating fully in the public and political life of the countries in which
they live, including the lack of the exercise of their full citizenship rights,
GE.17-17699(E)