UN General Assembly Resolution 2908 (XXVII), Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
(November 2, 1972), reaffirmed
that the continuation of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations -- including racism, apartheid and activities of foreign economic and other interests which exploit colonial peoples, as well as the waging of colonial wars to suppress the national liberation movements of the colonial Territories in Africa -- is incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples and poses a threat to international peace and security.
and condemned
the policies, pursued by certain colonial Powers in the Territories under their domination, of imposing non-representative regimes and arbitrary constitutions, strengthening the position of foreign economic and other interests, misleading world public opinion and encouraging the systematic influx of foreign immigrants while evicting, displacing and transferring the indigenous inhabitants to other areas, and calls upon those Powers to desist forthwith from such policies.
while not specifically providing a definition of the word "colony."