A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/132 23 February 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda item 108 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/623)] 53/132. 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 Discrimination2 and the Convention against Discrimination in Education, adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 14 December 1960,3 1 Resolution 217 A (III). 2 Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 429, No. 6193. /...