United Nations General Assembly A/RES/55/84 Distr.: General 28 February 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 112 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/600)] 55/84. Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and the convening of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance The General Assembly, Reaffirming its objectives, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, of achieving 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 and its conviction that racism and racial discrimination constitute a total negation of the purposes and principles of the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 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 Noting the efforts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination since its establishment in 1970 to promote the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Recalling the outcome of the two World Conferences to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, held at Geneva in 1978 4 and in 1983, 5 1 Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 429, No. 6193. 4 See Report of the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Geneva, 14–25 August 1978 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.79.XIV.2). 5 See Report of the second World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Geneva, 1–12 August 1983 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.83.XIV.4 and corrigendum). 2 00 56443