RES/34/33 Establishment of a forum on people of African descent

GE.17-05687(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session

27 February–24 March 2017

Agenda item 9

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 24 March 2017

34/33. Establishment of a forum on people of African descent

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 56/266 of 27 March 2002, in which the

Assembly endorsed the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, reaffirming the

commitments contained therein with regard to people of African descent, and recalling also

all previous Human Rights Council resolutions on the comprehensive follow-up to the 2001

World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related

Intolerance and the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of

Action,

Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 30/17 of 2 October 2015 on a

forum on people of African descent in the diaspora,

Recalling further all its previous resolutions on the global elimination of the

scourges of racism and racial discrimination,

Bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 69/16 of 18 November 2014, in which

the Assembly adopted the programme of activities for the implementation of the

International Decade for People of African Descent,

1. Invites the President of the General Assembly to facilitate, during the

seventy-first session, a resolution on the establishment of a forum on people of African

descent;

2. Recommends that the General Assembly establish a forum on people of

African descent, in accordance with the recommendation contained in paragraph 29 (i) of

the programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People

of African Descent,1 the modalities of which should reflect the views and preferences of the

communities concerned;

1 General Assembly resolution 69/16, annex.

3. Decides to allocate three days of the annual session of the Intergovernmental

Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and

Programme of Action to the forum on people of African descent, in accordance with the

recommendation contained in paragraph 29 (i) of the programme of activities for the

implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent;

4. Recommends that the General Assembly invite States located in the regions

where people of African descent live and of which they are citizens to offer to host regional

conferences on the establishment of the forum, with the participation of people of African

descent, with a view to making substantive contributions on the format, structure and

content of the proposed forum;

5. Encourages all States, intergovernmental and non-governmental

organizations, private institutions and individuals, and other donors in a position to do so,

to contribute generously to the Trust Fund for the Programme for the Decade for Action to

Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination with a view to contributing to the successful

implementation of the programme;

6. Decides to remain seized of this priority matter.

58th meeting

24 March 2017

[Adopted without a vote.]