A/RES/73/174
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)]
73/174.
Terrorism and human rights
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights 2 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights 2 and other relevant international human rights instruments,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council,
the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council concerning human
rights and terrorism, the most recent of which are Assembly resolutions 72/180 of
19 December 2017 and 72/246 of 24 December 2017, and Human Rights Council
resolutions 34/8 of 23 March 2017, 3 35/34 of 23 June 2017 4 and 37/27 of
23 March 2018, 5
Emphasizing that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated,
Reaffirming the obligation of States to respect all human rights and fundamental
freedoms and the fundamental importance of respecting the rule of law,
Reaffirming also its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and
practices of terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, in all its forms
and manifestations, wherever and by whomsoever committed, regardless of their
motivation, and of the financial, material or political support of terrorism as
unjustifiable in accordance with applicable international law,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/72/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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