Manifestation of Racial Prejudice and National and Religious Intolerance

A/RES/1779(XVII)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

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3 versions · 1963–1967

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3 topics

Laws and Regulations Racial Discrimination Religious Intolerance

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6 operative paragraphs

Im,ites the Governments of all States, the specialized agencies and non-governmental and private organizations to continue to make sustained efforts to educate

6 Ibid., Thirty-second Session, Supplement l•./o. 8 (E/3456); see in particular paras. 99-139 and draft resolutions V an

7 E/CN.4/815 and Corr.I; see in particular paras. 149-189. public opinion with a view to the eradication of racial prejudice and national and religious intolerance and the elimination of all un?esirable influences promoting these, and to take appropriate measures so that education may be directed with due regard to article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to principle 10 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 1959 ;3

Calls upon the Governments of all States to take all necessary steps to rescind discriminatory laws which have the effect of creating and perpetuating racial prejudice and national and religious intolerance wherever they still exist, to adopt legislation if necessary for prohibiting such discrimination, and to take such legislative or other appropriate measures to combat such prejudice and intolerance ;

Recommends the Governments of all States to discourage actively, through education and all media of information, the creation, propagation and dissemination of such prejudice and intolerance in any form whatever:

Invites the specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations to co-operate fully with the Governments of States in their efforts to prevent and eradicate racial prejudice and national and religious intolerance;

Invites the Governments of Member States the specialized agencies and the non-governmental orga;1izations concerned to inform the Secretary-General of action taken by them in compliance with the present resolution :

Requests the Secretarv-General to submit to the General Assembly at its eighteenth session a report on compliance with the present resolution.

1187th plenary mcrtino.

7 December 1967.

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