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6. Calls upon all Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families8 as a
matter of priority;
7. Commends all States that have ratified or acceded to the international instruments to combat racism
and racial discrimination, especially the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination2 and the Convention against Discrimination in Education;3
8. Urges States to limit the extent of any reservation they lodge to the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, to formulate any reservation as precisely and as narrowly
as possible, to ensure that no reservations are incompatible with the objective and purpose of the Convention
or otherwise contrary to international treaty law, to review their reservations regularly with a view to
withdrawing them and to withdraw reservations that are contrary to the objective and purpose of the
Convention or that are otherwise incompatible with international treaty law;
9. Encourages the mass media to promote ideas of non-discrimination, respect, tolerance and
understanding among peoples and between different cultures;
10. Affirms its determination to combat violence stemming from intolerance on the basis of ethnicity,
which it considers an issue of particular gravity;
11. Requests the Secretary-General to continue the study on the effects of racial discrimination on the
children of minorities and those of migrant workers in the fields of education, training and employment and to
submit, inter alia, specific recommendations for the implementation of measures to combat the effects of that
discrimination;
12. Regrets the continued lack of interest, support and financial resources for the Third Decade and its
related Programme of Action, reflected in the fact that very few of the activities planned for the period 19941998 were carried out;
13. Also regrets that the contributions made by the international community to the Trust Fund for the
Programme of Action for the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination remain below the
level required, and once again requests the Secretary-General to include in his report to the General Assembly
at its fifty-fourth session concrete proposals on how to ensure the financial and personnel resources required
for the implementation of the Programme of Action, including through the United Nations regular budget and
extrabudgetary sources;
14. Welcomes the convening, at Geneva from 10 to 14 November 1997, of a seminar on the role of the
Internet with regard to the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination,9 and invites the Commission on Human Rights to consider its recommendations for
responsible use of the Internet;
15. Recalls its repeated appeals and those of the Economic and Social Council for the establishment of
a mechanism within the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to serve as a
focal point for coordinating all the activities of the Third Decade, welcomes the formation of a racism project
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