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Holocaust Remembrance

A/RES/60/7View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72Holocaust remembrance, published in 2005.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 topics
AnniversariesCivil SocietyConcentration CampsEducational ProgrammesEthnic and Racial GroupsForced LabourGenocideHistoric Sites and MonumentsInternational DaysJewish HolocaustPrisonsReligious IntoleranceReport PreparationTask ForcesViolence

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2006.

  • 2006A/60/882Programme of outreach on the "Holocaust and the United Nations" report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Resolves that the United Nations will designate 27 January as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust;
2
Urges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, and in this context commends the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research;
3
Rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or part;
4
Commends those States which have actively engaged in preserving those sites that served as Nazi death camps, concentration camps, forced labour camps and prisons during the Holocaust;
5
Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur;
6
Requests the Secretary-General to establish a programme of outreach on the subject of the “Holocaust and the United Nations” as well as measures to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide; to report to the General Assembly on the establishment of this programme within six months from the date of the adoption of the present resolution; and to report thereafter on the implementation of the programme at its sixty-third session.

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