A/HRC/RES/42/29 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 2 October 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 9 Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 27 September 2019 42/29. From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations including those of promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, and reaffirming also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, , Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Recalling also 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, and the International Decade for People of African Descent as proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013, Recalling further the General Assembly resolutions in this regard, in particular Assembly resolution 73/262 of 22 December 2018, and the imperative need for their full and effective implementation, Emphasizing the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as an important international instrument to combat all the scourges of racism, and in this regard noting with concern that the commitment made at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to achieve universal ratification of this primary instrument by 2005 was regrettably not fulfilled, and underlining the imperative need to elaborate complementary international standards as recommended in paragraph 199 of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, Concerned that many years have lapsed since the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, and regretting in this regard that its objectives have not been met, Concerned also, in the above context, at the increasing incidents of racially motivated hatred in all its forms and manifestations, some of which have taken violent forms with concomitant racial profiling, precipitated by the resurgence of extremist nationalism and populism, GE.19-16883(E) 