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General Assembly resolution: Treatment of people of Indian origin in the Union of South Africa

2 December 1950

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolutions 44(I) and 265 (III) relating to the treatment of people of Indian origin in the Union of South Africa,

Having considered the communication by the Permanent Representative of India to the Secretary-General dated 10 July 1950,

Having in mind its resolution 103 (I) of 19 November 1946 against racial persecution and discrimination, and its resolution 217 (III) dated 10 December 1948 relating to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

Considering that a policy of “racial segregation” (Apartheid) is necessarily based on doctrines of racial discrimination,