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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/146
7 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 93
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/604)]
49/146.
Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial
Discrimination
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its objectives set forth in the Charter of the United
Nations to achieve international cooperation in solving problems of an
economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and
encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without
distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Reaffirming also its firm determination and its commitment to eradicate
totally and unconditionally racism in all its forms and racial discrimination,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1/ the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination 2/ and the Convention against Discrimination in Education
adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization on 14 December 1960, 3/
Recalling also the outcome of the two World Conferences to Combat Racism
and Racial Discrimination, held at Geneva in 1978 and 1983,
Welcoming the outcome of the World Conference on Human Rights, held at
Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, and, in particular, the attention given in the
1/
Resolution 217 A (III).
2/
Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.
3/
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 429, No. 6193.
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