20. 虽然奴隶制和殖民主义受到了国际上的谴责，但这种现象依然存在，需要会员国采取紧急行动。43 此外，正式废除奴隶制和殖民主义并没有解决由于这些行为造成的种族歧视结构。换言之，种族歧视在当代的许多表现形式必须理解为是未充分纠正的种族不公正和不平等的历史形式和结构的一种延续。44 因此，联合国会员国和联合国机关正确地强调指出，殖民主义和跨大西洋的奴隶贩卖是造成当代许多祸害和侵犯人权行为的原因。《德班宣言》将殖民主义和跨大西洋奴隶制确定为依然是种族歧视和持续不平等延续至今的根源。45 促进和保护人权小组委员会还强调指出，这些行为的有害影响延续到 21 世纪。46
20. Although slavery and colonialism are the object of international condemnation, they still occur and require urgent action from Member States.43 Furthermore, the formal abolition of slavery and colonialism has not addressed the ongoing racially discriminatory structures built by those practices. In other words, many contemporary manifestations of racial discrimination must be understood as a continuation of insufficiently remediated historical forms and structures of racial injustice and inequality. 44 Accordingly, United Nations Member States and organs have rightly emphasized that colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade are a cause of numerous contemporary harms and human rights violations. The Durban Declaration identifies both colonialism and transatlantic slavery as evils that remain contemporary sources of racial discrimination and persistent inequality. 45 The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights also emphasized that the harmful effects of those practices continue into the twenty-first century.46