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11. Urges all actors on the international scene to build an international order
based on inclusion, justice, equality and equity, human dignity, mutual
understanding and promotion of and respect for cultural diversity and universal
human rights, and to reject all doctrines of exclusion based on racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;
12. Urges States to ensure that their political and legal systems reflect the
multicultural diversity within their societies and, where necessary, to improve
democratic institutions so that they are more fully participatory and avoid
marginalization and exclusion of, and discrimination against, specific sectors of
society;
13. Calls upon States, international organizations and United Nations
agencies, and invites civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to
recognize and promote respect for cultural diversity for the purpose of advancing
the objectives of peace, development and universally accepted human rights;
14. Requests the Secretary-General, in the light of the present resolution, to
prepare a report on human rights and cultural diversity, taking into account the
views of Member States, relevant United Nations agencies and non-governmental
organizations, as well as the considerations in the present resolution regarding the
recognition and importance of cultural diversity among all peoples and nations in
the world, and to submit the report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth
session;
15. Decides to continue consideration of this question at its fifty-eighth
session under the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative
approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental
freedoms”.
77th plenary meeting
18 December 2002
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