c. Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
By its resolution 48/91 of 20 December 1993, the General Assembly pro- claimed the Third Decade to Combat Racism
and Racial Discrimination, beginning in 1993, and adopted the Programme of Action proposed for the Decade. The
ultimate goals of the Decade are:
• to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without dis- tinction of any kind on grounds of race,
colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, with particular emphasis on eradicating racial prejudice, racism and
racial discrimination;
• to arrest any expansion of racist policies, to eliminate the persistence of racist policies and to counteract the
emergence of alliances based on the mutual espousal of racism and racial discrimination;
• to resist any policy and practices which lead to the strengthening of racist regimes and contribute to sustaining
racism and racial discrimination;
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