United Nations
A/RES/71/181
General Assembly
Distr.: General
31 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 66 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/482)]
71/181. A global call for concrete action for the total 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 and in this regard
underlining the imperative need for their full and effective implementation,
Acknowledging the significance of 2016 as the fifteenth anniversary of the
adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, and 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
Programme of Action remains a solid basis and the only instructive outco me of the
World Conference, which prescribes comprehensive measures for combating all the
scourges of racism and adequate remedies for victims,
Recalling the three Decades for Action to Combat Racism and Racial
Discrimination previously declared by the General Assembly, and regretting that the
Programmes of Action for those Decades were not fully implemented and that their
objectives have yet to be attained,
Reiterating that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
and have the potential to contribute constructively to the development and well being of their societies, and that any doctrine of racial superiority is scientifically
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1
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
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