Measures to Be Taken Against Nazi, Fascist and Neo-Fascist Activities and All Other Forms of Totalitarian Ideologies and Practices Based on Racial Intolerance, Hatred and Terror

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1985.

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7 versions · 1981–1987

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/160

1987A/RES/41/160Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terrorLatestCompare with previous version
1986A/RES/40/148Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terrorCompare with previous version
1985A/RES/39/114Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terrorCompare with previous version
1984A/RES/38/99Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terrorCompare with previous version
1983A/RES/37/179Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terrorCompare with previous version

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Anniversaries Declarations Fascism Human Rights Information Dissemination Nazism Racial Discrimination Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Totalitarianism Treaties War Crimes War Criminals War Propaganda World War (1939-1945)

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11 operative paragraphs

Again condemns and expresses its determination to resist all totalitarian or other ideologies and practices, including Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist, based on racial or ethnic exclusiveness or intolerance, hatred and terror, which deprive people of basic human rights and funda mental freedoms and of equality of opportunity;

Urges all States to draw attention to the threat to democratic institutions by the above-mentioned ideologies and practices and to consider taking measures, in accord ance with their national constitutional systems and with the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, to prohibit or otherwise deter activities by groups or organizations or whoever is practising those ideologies;

Invites Member States to adopt, in accordance with their national constitutional systems and with the provi sions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, as a matter of high priority, measures declaring punishable by law any dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred and of war propaganda, including Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist ideologies;

Calls upon States to assist each other in detecting, arresting and bringing to trial persons suspected of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity and. if they are found guilty, in punishing them;

Appeals to all States that have not yet done so to ratify or to accede or to give serious consideration to acceding to the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Convention on the Prevention and Punish ment of the Crime of Genocide, the International Conven tion on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimi nation, the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statu tory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity and the International Convention on the Sup pression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid;

Calls upon the appropriate specialized agencies. as well as intergovernmental and international non-govern mental organizations, to initiate or intensify measures against the ideologies and practices described in paragraph I above;

Invites all States. on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War, to renew their efforts to counter the spread of ideologies and practices described in paragraph 1 above and to initiate measures in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security:

Gives expression to the respect felt by today's gener ations for the victims of and the struggle of peoples against nazism and fascism in the Second World War and for establishing the United Nations in order to save mankind from the scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in fundamen tal human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person;

Declares that 8 and 9 May 1985 will be the days of the fortieth anniversary of victory over nazism and fas cism in the Second World War and of that struggle against them;

I 0. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat pays due attention to the dissemination of information on this anniversary and the founding of the United Nations. exposing the ideologies and practices described in para graph 1 above;

I I. Reiterates its request to the Commission on Human Rights to consider this subject at its forty-first session;

Calls once again upon all States to provide the Secretary-General with their comments on this question:

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report. through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its fortieth session in the light of the discus sion that will take place in the Commission on Human Rights and on the basis of comments provided by States and international organizations.

14 Decemher 1984

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