A/HRC/RES/24/26
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 October 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-fourth session
Agenda item 9
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
24/26.
From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 56/266 of 27 March 2002, in which the
Assembly endorsed the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 57/195 of 18 December 2002, in which
the Assembly assigned responsibilities to the relevant United Nations institutions to ensure
the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action at the
international level,
Recalling further all previous resolutions by the Commission on Human Rights and
the Human Rights Council on the comprehensive follow-up to the 2001 World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the
effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, the most
recent of which is Council resolution 22/30 of 22 March 2013, in which the Council
underlined that the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World
Conference remains a solid basis and the only instructive outcome of the World Conference
for the combating of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance at all
levels,
Recalling the political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General
Assembly to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action, adopted on 22 September 2011, 1 which reaffirmed the political
commitment to the full and effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
1
GE.13-18055
the Council on its twenty-fourth session (A/HRC/24/2), Part One.
General Assembly resolution 66/3.
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