[This resolution is of special significance as it is the first by an international conference calling for sanctions against South Africa, and boycott of South African goods - editor.]

WHEREAS having heard shocking accounts of the brutal operation of racialism and discriminatory laws and denial of human rights on the continent of Africa from representatives of the participating organisations,

WHEREAS racialism is one of the outcomes of colonialism and the independence of states is a pre-requisite for the end of discrimination,

WHEREAS Africans in the Union of South Africa, the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, Mozambique, Angola, Kenya, the Cameroons, Belgian Congo, Basutoland, South West Africa, and Kamerun are victims of a racialism that has reached alarming proportions;

WHEREAS racialism in Algeria has caused and is causing race extermination;

WHEREAS in a colonial country land belongs to a foreign power:

WHEREAS the problem of land in a colonial territory represents the ugliest form of colonial rule that must be destroyed so that African authorities own the land;

WHEREAS the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being flouted in Africa and the Africans are deprived of the rights of man;

WHEREAS the recognition of, and respect for human dignity are the bases of a decent society;

WHEREAS those who practise racialism and discrimination are therefore out of step with the law;

WHEREAS colonial authorities do not respect international conventions;

WHEREAS democracy needs to be established immediately in Africa;

WHEREAS the colonial authorities have shown obstinate indifference towards resolutions adopted to set up a democracy;

WHEREAS the African must find concrete means of effectively reversing the situation;

WHEREAS Africa’s destiny and political constitution must be forged by Africans themselves;

BE IT RESOLVED that this Conference registers its vehement protest against this ugly system;

Condemns the pernicious system of racialism and discriminating laws, especially as expressed in its extreme and most brutal forms in the Union of South Africa, Rhodesia, the Portuguese Territories of Angola, Mozambique, Principe, and Sao Thome, where the indigenous populations exist under a regime of apartheid;

Condemns the lack of educational facilities and the denial of social benefits;

Condemns the denial of human democratic rights as enunciated in the Charter of the United Nations;

Condemns racial segregation, reserve systems and all other forms of racial discrimination and colour bar;

Condemns the use of forced labour in territories such as Angola, Mozambique, Belgian Congo, South and South-west Africa;

Condemns the political policies of territories like South Africa which base their minority rule of the majority upon apartheid's social doctrines;

Condemns the alienation of the African’s best land for the use of European colonisers;

The All-African People’s Conference declares that as long as the system of discrimination and racialism remains on this African continent it will arrest the development of the African peoples and stifle their self-expression;

Maintains that while discrimination continues to exist the problems facing Africa cannot be solved;

The All-African People’s Conference calls upon the United Nations to reconstitute the Committee on the Racial Situation in the Union of South Africa;

If the United Nations should fail to reconstitute this committee this conference calls upon the Secretariat of the independent States of Africa to set up such a Committee;

The All-African People’s Conference declares that the struggle for the freedom of Africa is the task of the Africans themselves, and calls upon the workers, the peasants, and other sections of the toiling masses, together with the intellectuals to unite their forces in common action for a final attack on discrimination and racialism;

Declares that political parties and leaders should recognise the need for a united front in the struggle for freedom and independence;

Convinced further that the overwhelming majority of the populations of the dependent territories have been made conscious of their rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

1. That the permanent Secretariat to be set up should urge any African independent states which conduct trade with South Africa to impose economic sanctions against the latter country as a protest against racial discrimination which the European minority are practising to the humiliation of the non-European majority. Such economic sanctions should include the boycott of South African goods.
2. That all African countries which supply South Africa with migrant labour should organise this reservoir of workers for its own use and thus withhold such labour from South African industry which has become the instrument of oppression. The permanent Secretariat should endeavour to give financial aid to any development plan that any country may have to initiate as a result of the diversion of its labour force.
3. That no African state should have any diplomatic relations with any country on our continent that practises race discrimination.
4. That April 15 should be set aside and called Africa Freedom Day, which all African countries and all friends of Africa throughout the world shall observe as a rallying point for the forces of freedom.
5. That the permanent Secretariat should set up a bureau of information. Such bureau should appoint correspondents in various African territories who will send factual news items relating to the Liberatory Movement to a central office for publication. The bureau should also be a depot from which liberatory journals in Africa will be circulated. This we believe will be not only a medium through which we shall get to know one another, but also through which we can co-ordinate our struggle.
6. That the Independent African States should form an "African Legion" consisting of volunteers who will be ready to protect the freedom of the African peoples.
7. That this conference insists on immediate independence for all African territories in order to put an end to racial discrimination in the spirit of the United Nations Charter.
8. That this Conference rejects the claim of Portugal that its colonies constitute part of metropolitan Portugal, and demands immediate independence for countries in Africa under Portuguese rule.
9. That this Conference, considering that the future of the Mandated Territory of South-west Africa has been debated at the United Nations for 12 successive years, and that the Herero, Nama, and other African inhabitants, who have been petitioning the United Nations during that time, still complain of the loss of their lands, and their humiliating subjection to the apartheid system, in this so-called sacred trust of civilisation; that this Conference call on the Great Powers who entrusted the Mandate to South Africa, especially the United Kingdom, the United States, and France, together with other former members of the League of Nations, to revoke the mandate and take immediate steps to grant independence to South-west Africa.
10. This Conference regards as unacceptable and discreditable any plan that would allow the incorporation into the Union of South Africa’s apartheid system any African land or people whether belonging to the Mandated Territory of South-west Africa, or the British Protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland.
11. That this Conference condemns the Central African Federation and all its discriminatory laws and practices which lead to social, cultural, economic and political racial consideration. Therefore calls upon the British Government to honour the declaration of human rights as entrenched in the United Nations Charter and dissolve the Central African Federation in the benefit of all people.
12.  That in respect of Kenya this Conference urges the British Government to end the present state of emergency in Kenya and the release of all political prisoners. Also that this Conference demands the abrogation of all discriminatory laws, the establishment of a common electoral roll based on adult suffrage with provision for one man one vote, and the insertion of laws in the Statute Books for the transfer of the lands and rights to the African people.