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against the anti-Hitler coalition or collaborated with the Nazi movement, and poison
the minds of young people, and that those practices are incompatible with the
obligations of States Members of the United Nations under its Charter and are
incompatible with the goals and principles of the Organization;
Also stresses that such practices fuel contemporary forms of racism,
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racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and contribute to the
spread and multiplication of various extremist political parties, movements and
groups, including neo-Nazis and skinhead groups;
Emphasizes the need to take the necessary measures to put an end to the
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practices described above, and calls upon States to take more effective measures in
accordance with international human rights law to combat those phenomena and the
extremist movements, which pose a real threat to democratic values;
Reaffirms that, according to article 4 of the International Convention on
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the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, States parties to that
instrument are, inter alia, under the obligation:
(a) To condemn all propaganda and all organizations that are based on ideas
of racial superiority or that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and
discrimination in any form;
(b) To undertake to adopt immediate and positive measures designed to
eradicate all incitement to, or acts of, such discrimination with due regard to the
principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rights
expressly set forth in article 5 of the Convention;
(c) To declare as an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas
based on racial superiority or hatred, and incitement to racial discrimination, as well
as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts against any race or group of persons
of another colour or ethnic origin, and also the provision of any assistance to racist
activities, including the financing thereof;
(d) To declare illegal and prohibit organizations and organized and all other
propaganda activities that promote and incite racial discrimination and to recognize
participation in such organizations or activities as an offence punishable by law;
(e) To prohibit public authorities or public institutions, national or local,
from promoting or inciting racial discrimination;
10. Encourages those States that have made reservations to article 4 of the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
to give serious consideration to withdrawing such reservations as a matter of
priority;
11. Recalls the request of the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution
2005/55 that the Special Rapporteur continue to reflect on this issue, make relevant
recommendations in his future reports and seek and take into account in this regard
the views of Governments and non-governmental organizations;
12. Requests the Special Rapporteur to prepare, within existing resources, for
submission to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and the Human
Rights Council, reports on the implementation of the present resolution based on the
views collected in accordance with the request of the Commission on Human
Rights, as recalled by the Assembly in paragraph 11 above;
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