Study in collaboration with the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of ways and means of ensuring the implementation of United Nations resolutions bearing on apartheid, racism and racial discrimination; implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

9 (XXXII). Study in collaboration with the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of ways and means of ensuring the implementation of United Nations resolutions bearing on apartheid, racism and racial discrimination; implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination[1]12

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling its resolution 1 (XXIX) by which it submitted the draft programme for a decade for action to combat racism and racial discrimination to the Economic and Social Council for submission to the General Assembly, Reiterating its firm conviction that racism and racial discrimination are the total negation of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and that they militate against human progress, peace and justice, Believing in the urgent need for continuous and vigorous national action and collective international measures against racism and racial discrimination, which affect millions of people all over the world, in order to ensure them the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, Mindful of General Assembly resolution 3377 (XXX), calling upon the Commission on Human Rights, in collaboration with the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to study ways and means of ensuring the implementation of United Nations resolutions bearing on apartheid, racism and racial discrimination with a view to facilitating the examination of this question the General Assembly in accordance with paragraph 18 (i) of the Programme for e Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Taking into consideration all the proceedings and resolutions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council on the question of the Decade r Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination since the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 3057 (XXVIII) proclaiming the Decade, Welcoming the decision of the Sub-Commission to include in its agenda for the twenty-ninth session an item entitled "The role of the Sub-Commission in the implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination",

1. Requests the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at its next session to study and prepare suggestions on effective says and means and concrete measures for securing the full and universal implementation of the United Nations resolutions and decisions on racism, racial discrimination, apartheid, decolonization and self-determination and related matters d to submit its suggestions and proposals to the Commission at its thirty-third session;

2. Draws the attention of the Sub-Commission to the deliberations and participation of the General Assembly at its thirtieth session and of the Commission at its thirty-second session on this question;

3. Recommends to the Economic and Social Council to take into account the participation of the Commission in the preparatory arrangements for holding the world conference to combat racism and racial discrimination.

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[1]12 Adopted at the 1378th meeting, on 5 March 1976, by 19 votes to 8, with 1 abstention. See chap. X.