A/RES/75/170
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 70 (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 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/476, para. 23)]
75/170.
International Day for People of African Descent
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 for the promotion and protection of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons,
Reaffirming also that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes
that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and that everyone
is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any
kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national
or social origin, property, birth or other status,
Recalling its resolution 52/111 of 12 December 1997, in which it decided to
convene the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance, and noting its previous resolutions on the comprehensive
follow-up to the World Conference and the effective implementation of the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action, 2
Reaffirming its resolutions 64/169 of 18 December 2009, in which it proclaimed
the year 2011 the International Year for People of African Descent, and 68/237 of
23 December 2013, in which it proclaimed the International Decade for People of
African Descent (2015–2024), with the theme “People of African descent:
recognition, justice and development”,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I.
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