A/RES/74/137
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 68 (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 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/397)]
74/137.
A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and
the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
The General Assembly,
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 adopted by the World Conference, 1 in particular its resolutions
66/144 of 19 December 2011 and 67/155 of 20 December 2012, and in this regard
underlining the imperative need for their full and effective implementation,
Recalling also the suffering of the victims of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, and the need to honour their memory,
Calling upon States to honour the memory of victims of the historical injustices
of slavery, the slave trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and
apartheid,
Stressing that the outcome of the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance has the same status as the
outcomes of all the major United Nations conferences, summits and special sessions
in the human rights and social fields, and that the Durban Declaration and Programm e
of Action remains a solid basis and the only instructive outcome of the World
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