From Rhetoric to Reality a Global Call for Concrete Action Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

A/HRC/RES/7/33View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, published in 2008.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 2008–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/60/16

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/60/16	From rhetoric to reality a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance :	5,088	43%Compare
2024	A/HRC/RES/57/25	From rhetoric to reality a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance :	4,748	53%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/27	From rhetoric to reality a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance :	3,890	46%Compare
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/32	From rhetoric to reality a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance :	4,998	49%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/48/18	From rhetoric to reality a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance :	3,402	26%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Anti-Discrimination Measures Australia Australian Aborigines Conferences Declarations Groups of Experts International Instruments Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Racial Discrimination Standards Working Groups Xenophobia

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Salutes all positive developments in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;

Welcomes the landmark and historic formal apology by the Government of Australia for the past laws and policies that inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on its indigenous peoples;

Urges Governments that have not done so to issue formal apologies to the victims of past and historic injustices and to take all necessary measures to achieve the healing and reconciliation of and the restoration of dignity to those victims, as outlined in paragraph 101 of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;

Urges all Governments to summon the necessary political will to take decisive steps to combat racism in all its forms and manifestations;

Acknowledges the report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its eighth session (A/HRC/7/36);

Welcomes the convening of the first part of the sixth session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action in January 2008, during which the Working Group made an initial contribution to the preparatory process of the Durban Review Conference, and looks forward to the convening of the second part of the sixth session, during which the Working Group should continue its follow-up to the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, including the relevant paragraphs of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, which are yet to receive the necessary attention, in accordance with the Working Group’s programme of work;

Also welcomes the convening of the first part of the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards in February 2008, and requests the Ad Hoc Committee, at the second part of its first session, to fulfil, as a matter of priority, the objective outlined in paragraph 199 of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;

Acknowledges the report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to the Council at its seventh session (A/HRC/7/19);

Decides to invite the Group of Five Independent Eminent Experts to address the Council at its tenth session.

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