RES/26/1 Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent: draft programme of activities
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2014 Jul
Session: 26th Regular Session (2014 Jun)
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-sponsors9
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Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth 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
26/1 Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent: draft programme of activities
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013, by which the Assembly proclaimed the International Decade for People of African Descent, commencing on 1 January 2015 and ending on 31 December 2024,
Recalling also its resolution 25/33 on the proclamation of the International Decade for People of African Descent and the work undertaken in that regard by the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action,
Bearing in mind the deadline of 30 June 2014 set by the General Assembly for the consideration and subsequent adoption of the draft programme of activities,
1. Decides to urgently transmit to the General Assembly, through the offices of the President of the General Assembly and his facilitator, the report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action containing the draft programme of activities in its current form;1
1 A/HRC/26/55.
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2. Invites the General Assembly to proceed with the consideration and subsequent adoption of the draft programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent, commencing on 1 January 2015.
21st meeting 18 June 2014
[Adopted without a vote.]