A/RES/74/159
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental
freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)]
74/159.
Human rights and cultural diversity
The General Assembly,
Recalling 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 as well as other pertinent human rights instruments,
Recalling also its resolutions 54/160 of 17 December 1999, 55/91 of
4 December 2000, 57/204 of 18 December 2002, 58/167 of 22 December 2003, 60/167
of 16 December 2005, 62/155 of 18 December 2007, 64/174 of 18 December 2009,
66/154 of 19 December 2011, 68/159 of 18 December 2013, 70/156 of 17 December
2015 and 72/170 of 19 December 2017, and recalling further its resolutions 54/113 of
10 December 1999, 55/23 of 13 November 2000 and 60/4 of 20 October 2005
concerning the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations,
Noting that numerous instruments within the United Nations system promote
cultural diversity, as well as the conservation and development of culture, in particular
the Declaration of the Principles of International Culture Cooperation proclaimed on
4 November 1966 by the General Conference of the United Na tions Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization at its fourteenth session, 3
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 4
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General
Conference, Fourteenth Session, Paris, 1966, Resolutions .
A/74/212.
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