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context of law enforcement established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 47/21,
and to present the study to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fourth session;
15.
Requests the United Nations system to strengthen its awareness-raising
campaigns to increase the visibility of the message of the Durban Declaration and Programme
of Action, its follow-up mechanisms and the work of the United Nations in the fight against
racism;
16.
Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the High Commissioner to
implement fully paragraphs 32 and 34 of General Assembly resolution 75/237, on outreach
and a public information campaign for the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of
the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and follow-up thereto;
17.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to establish and launch a twoyear comprehensive communications strategy, inclusive of an outreach programme to raise
awareness about and mobilize global public support for racial equality, including about the
content and contribution of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination and the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to the struggle
against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; the activities of the
strategy should include the publication and wide dissemination through United Nations
information centres and the field presences of the Office of the High Commissioner, also in
easily accessible printed and digital formats, of the Convention, the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action and the programme of activities for the International Decade for People
of African Descent, in all official languages of the United Nations; engagement with
universities, schools and other educational entities; identifying new challenges for
individuals and groups facing racial discrimination on social media; the production of
promotional material on racial equality with a youth-friendly approach for educational
purposes; publicizing positive examples of the implementation of the Convention and the
Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; engagement with news media; outreach to
civil society to enhance networking; and engagement with the general public, mainly young
people, on social media; and requests the Secretary-General to provide the strategy and
outreach programme with the necessary resources;
18.
Requests the High Commissioner to improve and streamline the section of the
website of the Office of the High Commissioner dedicated to the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action, to raise the visibility of the follow-up activities of the Human Rights
Council, its working groups, its special procedure mandate holders and the human rights
treaty bodies in relation to its implementation;
19.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, Member States and other
stakeholders to include in their annual updates to the Intergovernmental Working Group for
the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
information on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,
including on the activities conducted in the context of the outreach programme, and also
requests the Office to include information on the implementation of the communications
strategy in the annual report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly on global
efforts in the fight against racism;
20.
Acknowledges the work done by the Office of the High Commissioner, and
requests the High Commissioner to continue to provide the resources necessary for the
effective functioning of Durban follow-up mechanisms and to give high priority to the issue
of preventing and combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance in the work of the Office of the High Commissioner;
21.
Decides to remain seized of this important issue.
45th meeting
11 October 2021
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 32 to 10, with 5 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Argentina, Armenia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational
State of), Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Eritrea,
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