THE HOLOCAUST AND THE UNITED NATIONS OUTREACH PROGRAMME
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The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme<br />
solemn responsibility to fight those evils”. Governments must pledge<br />
to strengthen efforts to promote Holocaust education, remembrance<br />
and research.<br />
Partnerships<br />
Since the Stockholm Declaration, international organizations<br />
such as the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific<br />
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Council of<br />
Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights<br />
(FRA) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in<br />
Europe (OSCE) have made Holocaust remembrance a fundamental<br />
part of their mission. IHRA works collaboratively with<br />
these organizations, which have status as Permanent Observers.<br />
The seeds of this collective effort were sown sixty-five years ago,<br />
when the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution<br />
260, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the<br />
Crime of Genocide on 9 December, 1948. Furthermore, in November<br />
2005, the United Nations declared 27 January — the date in<br />
1945 when Russian forces liberated Auschwitz — as the International<br />
Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the<br />
Holocaust. United Nations General Assembly “Holocaust Remembrance”<br />
resolution 60/7 recalls the Universal Declaration of Human<br />
Rights and reaffirms that “the Holocaust, which resulted in the<br />
murder of one-third of the Jewish people along with countless<br />
members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all<br />
people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice”.<br />
Knowledge about the background, purpose and significance of<br />
the Holocaust is essential to raise public awareness and mobilize<br />
forces to push back against the prejudices and stereotypes that<br />
led to it. Hate crimes, be it based on xenophobia, anti-Semitism<br />
or Holocaust denial, are a global phenomenon. Individually and<br />
collectively, we have an obligation to fight discrimination that<br />
leads to the exclusion of groups of people and spreads hatred.<br />
As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated in 2010,
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