From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance 2017, para. 3
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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,