Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Decides that the international community and the UN should continue to give the highest priority to programmes for combating racism, racial discrimination and apartheid; requests the Secretary-General to continue the study on the effects of racial discrimination on the children of minorities, in particular those of migrant workers, in the field of education, training and employment, and to submit specific recommentations for the implementation of measures to combat the effects of that discrimination; requests the Secretary-General to prepare and issue as soon as possible a collection of model legislation for the guidance of Governments in the enactment of further legislation against racial discrimination; invites the Secretary-General to implement immediately those activities scheduled for the period 1985-1989 not yet carried out and to proceed with the implementation of the activities scheduled for the biennium 1990-1991; requests the Secretary-General to ensure that sufficient additional resources are included in the proposed programme budgets for the bienniums 1990-1991 and 1992-1993 to provide for the implementation of the activities of the 2nd Decade.

Adopted without vote, 78th meeting

2nd Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination : resolution.

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Adopted at the 78th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 173-175. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).