International Anti-Apartheid Year
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22 February 1978
4 (XXXIV). International Anti-Apartheid Year[1]7
The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling General Assembly resolution 32/105 B by which the Assembly proclaimed the year beginning on 21 March 1978 as International Anti-Apartheid Year, Bearing in mind the purposes and objectives of the Anti-Apartheid Year, Aware that gross violations of human rights continue unabated in South Africa, as evidenced in the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on southern Africa (E/CN.4/1270),1. Decides to participate actively in the launching of the International Anti-Apartheid Year;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to organize a formal meeting at the United Nations Office at Geneva on 21 March 1978 the day when the Anti-Apartheid Year will be launched at United Nations Headquarters in New York;
3. Decides that the Commission should be represented at the meeting in Geneva by the Chairman of its thirty-fourth session, who should be invited to address the meeting;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to invite the heads of specialized agencies in Geneva to participate in the meeting.
[1]7 Adopted unanimously at the 1415st meeting, on 22 February 1978. See chap. IV.
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