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Assembly (including the Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, the Declaration of the World Conference on the Decade against Racism and Racial Discrimination and the programme for the second half of this Decade) as well as the resolutions of the Security Council concerning the situation in South Africa,

Reaffirming in addition the need to co-operate with all organisations in the campaign to eliminate apartheid, in particular the United Nations, the Organisa- tion of African Unity and international and regional organisations of workers and employers,

Considering that developments which have taken place since the adoption of its Declaration and Programme for the Elimination of Apartheid in 1964 have demonstrated that apartheid still operates in a manner which deprives the Black population of free access to employment and training, full enjoyment of freedom of association and the right to organise, and equality of opportunity and treatment in the field of labour, while recent events have shown that through the "bantustan" policy and the use of repressive measures the South African Government still acts in a manner which violates international labour standards and which therefore requires urgent action by the international community to secure social justice, peace and freedom for all the people of South Africa,

Reaffirming its determination to continue to fulfil its responsibility to promote and take its part in securing the freedom and dignity of the people of South Africa, and to fight the policy of apartheid practised by the Government of South Africa,

Faithful to its role as spokesman of the social conscience of mankind and affirming once again its conviction that a government which deliberately practises apartheid is unworthy of the community of nations,

Considering that only urgent and determined action by the international community will bring the Government of South Africa to abandon its disastrous policy and to co-operate with employers' and workers' organisations in placing the relations between the various elements of the population of South Africa, and the relations between the people of South Africa and the rest of the world, on the basis of the equality of man, justice for all, good neighbourliness and mutual respect;

1. Solemnly reaffirms its fidelity to the fundamental principle of the Declara- tion of Philadelphia, according to which "all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity”.

2. Emphatically reaffirms its condemnation of the degrading, criminal and inhuman racial policies of the Government of South Africa, which policies are a violation of fundamental human rights and thus incompatible with the aims and purposes of the ILO.

3. Strongly reaffirms its determination to pursue its action until respect for the freedom and dignity of all human beings, irrespective of race, is fully assured in South Africa and until, to this end, the following objectives have been attained:

the total and final elimination of the policy of apartheid;

the repeal of all legislative, administrative and other measures which are a violation of the principle of the equality and dignity of man and a direct negation of the inherent rights and freedoms of the peoples of South Africa; the establishment and consistent pursuit of a policy of equal opportunity and treatment for all, in employment and occupation, irrespective of race, creed or

sex.

4. Decides to establish a permanent Committee on Apartheid of the Interna- tional Labour Conference for the purpose, inter alia, of monitoring action against apartheid.

5. (a) Confirms the Director-General's mandate to monitor and follow the situation in South Africa in respect of labour and social matters, and to submit every year for consideration by the Conference Committee on Apartheid a Special Report on the subject; to this effect, to request governments, employers' and

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