A/RES/78/234
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 69 (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 22 December 2023
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/78/478, para. 33)]
78/234.
A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the
comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action
The General Assembly,
Recalling 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 adopted by the World Conference, 1 in particular its resolutions
66/144 of 19 December 2011, 67/155 of 20 December 2012, 76/226 of 24 December
2021 and 77/205 of 15 December 2022, as well as its resolutions 75/314 of 2 August
2021 and 76/1 of 22 September 2021, and in this regard underlining the imperative
need for their full and effective implementation,
Recalling also the suffering of the victims of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance, and the need to honour their memory,
Calling upon States to honour the memory of victims of the historical injustices
of slavery, the slave trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and
apartheid,
Stressing that the outcome of the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance has the same status as the
outcomes of all the major United Nations conferences, summits and special sessions
in the human rights and social fields, and that the Durban Declaration and Programme
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See A/CONF.189/12 and A/CONF.189/12/Corr.1, chap. I.
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