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(Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by the General Assembly, resolution 2106 A (XX), A/RES/20/2106, 21 December 1965)

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Article 2

1. States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate  means  and  without delay a policy eliminating racial  discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races and, to this end:

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(e) Each State Party undertakes to encourage, where appropriate, integrationist multi-racial organizations and movements and other means of eliminating barriers between races, and to discourage anything which tends to strengthen racial division.

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Article 7

States Parties undertake to adopt immediate and effective measures, particularly in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information, with a view to combating prejudices which lead to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations and racial or ethnical groups, as well as to propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and this Convention.

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