RES/25/33 International Decade for People of African Descent
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2014 Apr
Session: 25th Regular Session (2014 Mar)
Agenda Item: Item9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Topic: People of African Descent
- Main sponsors54
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Ethiopia
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Côte d'Ivoire
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Eswatini
Tanzania, United Republic of
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
- Co-sponsors12
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Human Rights Council Twenty-fifth session Agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
25/33. International Decade for People of African Descent
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013 on the proclamation of the International Decade for People of African Descent,
1. Takes note with appreciation of the proclamation by the General Assembly in its resolution 68/237 of the International Decade for People of African Descent, effective from 1 January 2015 and ending on 31 December 2024;
2. Emphasizes the need to urgently heed the instruction of the General Assembly contained in paragraph 2 of its resolution 68/237, and in this regard requests the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to dedicate its programme of work at its forthcoming twelfth session, to be held from 7 to 17 April 2014, to the purposes of elaborating a programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent, drawing from the already developed and existing draft Programme of Action for the Decade for People of African Descent1 as elaborated by the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, welcomed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 21/33 of 28 September 2012 and discussed in the report of the Secretary-General on how to make the International Decade for People of African Descent effective;2
3. Invites the President of the General Assembly and his appointed facilitator for this purpose to participate in the forthcoming twelfth session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, as appropriate;
1 A/HRC/21/60/Add.2.
2 A/67/879.
United Nations A/HRC/RES/25/33
General Assembly
Distr.: General 10 April 2014
4. Requests the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to present its final report in this regard to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-sixth session for adoption and transmission to the General Assembly.
56th meeting 28 March 2014
[Adopted without a vote.]