Establishment of a Forum on People of African Descent

A/HRC/RES/34/33View PDF

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A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under 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, published in 2017.

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Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108	—

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7 subjects

Anti-Discrimination Measures Conferences Financing Human Rights People of African Descent Racial Discrimination Trust Funds

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6 operative paragraphs

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;

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,² the modalities of which should reflect the views and preferences of the communities concerned;

²General Assembly resolution 69/16, annex.

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;

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;

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;

Decides to remain seized of this priority matter.

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