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persisting structures of racial inequality, discrimination and subordination
rooted in slavery and colonialism. The Durban Declaration and Programme of
Action contains calls for the transformation and rehabilitation of those
structures and relations, which sustain contemporary racial inequality,
discrimination and subordination. A comprehensive approach to countering
racism entails an intersectional approach to understanding and fighting racial
discrimination by accounting for gender, class, migration status, religion,
disability status and other social categories;
(c) To support events dedicated to commemorating the World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,
with an eye to using such events to monitor implementation of its outcome
document, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and to make a
constructive contribution to the improvement of the Durban framework;
(d) To fully implement the Special Rapporteur’s recommendations set out
in her report on reparations for racial discrimination rooted in slavery and
colonialism (A/74/321), including through recognition of historic wrongdoings
related to slavery, the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism;
(e) To fully implement the Special Rapporteur’s recommendations set out
in her report on racial discrimination and emerging digital technologies
(A/HRC/44/57), in recognition of the groundbreaking consideration of emerging
technologies seen in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;
(f) To dedicate political and financial support towards implementing the
recommendations of the Durban follow-up mechanisms, for example, through
the study of tools for monitoring racial discrimination and the implementation
of other action steps recommended in their reports;
(g) To use legal, political, educational and cultural frameworks to combat
doctrines of racial superiority and other ideologies of intolerance enumerated by
target groups in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, including
antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, the glorification of Nazism and other
racist political platforms;
(h) To adopt the recommendations set out in the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action relating to the recognition of historical atrocities, including
slavery, the slave trade, the transatlantic slave trade, apartheid, colonialism and
genocide. In the same vein, educational materials should celebrate the
autonomous histories, cultures and contributions of Africans and people of
African descent, Asians and people of Asian descent, indigenous peoples, Roma
and other national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities;
(i) To ensure their laws and policies conform with equality and
non-discrimination principles, fully abide by their obligations under the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination and other international human rights instruments, and ratify any
international human rights conventions to which they have not committed;
(j) To refrain from the selective application and implementation of the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;
(k) To expedite the creation of national action plans against racism, as
well as national equality bodies and other anti-racism institutions, and ensure
that such development is done in full consultation with affected groups and civil
society, as laid out in the 2014 document by OHCHR entitled, Developing
National Action Plans Against Racial Discrimination: A Practical Guide. States
and national human rights institutions that produce such policies and practices
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