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 _______________ 1 See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I. 16-21981 (E) *1621981* Please recycle

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