Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.

1992/8.
Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

1. Commends all States that have ratified or acceded to the relevant international instruments to combat racism and racial discrimination;

2. Appeals to those States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying, acceding to and implementing the relevant international instruments particularly the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid and the Convention against Discrimination in Education adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on 14 December 1960;

3. Invites all Governments and international and non-governmental organizations to increase and intensify their activities to combat racism, racial discrimination and apartheid and to provide relief and assistance to the victims of these evils;

4. Strongly appeals to all Governments, organizations and individuals in a position to do so to contribute generously to the Trust Fund for the Programme for the Decade of Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

5. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to inform the Commission on Human Rights of the measures taken, pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 42/47 of 30 November 1987, 44/52 of 8 December 1989, 45/105 of 14 December 1990 and 46/85 of 16 December 1991 to ensure that the necessary and additional resources are included in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1992-1993 to provide for the implementation of the activities of the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

6. Also requests the Secretary-General to inform the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-ninth session of the progress made in carrying out the plan of activities for 1992-1993 so that the Commission can make its contribution thereto;

7. Takes note of the report of the Meeting of Experts to review the experience of countries in the operation of schemes of internal self-government for indigenous peoples (E/CN.4/1992/42 and Add.1), which took place at Nuuk, Greenland, from 24 to 28 September 1991;

8. Notes and commends the efforts made to coordinate all the programmes currently under implementation by the United Nations system that relate to the objectives of the Second Decade and encourages the Coordinator for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination to continue his efforts;

9. Welcomes the publication of the global compilation of national legislation against racism and racial discrimination (HR/PUB/1990/8) and requests the Secretary-General to transmit it to Governments as soon as possible;

10. Requests the Secretary-General to continue the study on the effects of racial discrimination on the children of minorities, in particular those of migrant workers, in the field of education, training and employment, and to submit, inter alia , specific recommendations for the implementation of measures to combat the effects of that discrimination;

11. Welcomes the progress made in preparing model legislation for the guidance of Governments in the enactment of further legislation against racial discrimination, and requests the Secretary-General to finalize the text of the model legislation and the handbook of recourse procedures for victims of racial discrimination and to publish and distribute those texts as soon as possible;

12. Decides to give thematic consideration each year to a selected topic within the plan of activities for 1990-1993, as listed in the annex to General Assembly resolution 42/47 ;

13. Recalls that in its resolution 1991/11, it decided that the topic for such thematic consideration in 1992 would be "Treatment of political prisoners and detainees in South Africa, particularly women and children";

14. Decides that the topic for 1993 will be "Global study on the extent of dissemination of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination";

15. Recommends that the General Assembly take appropriate steps, in due course, to launch a third decade to combat racism and racial discrimination, to begin in 1993;

16. Decides to consider at its forty-ninth session, as a matter of high priority, the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.