A/RES/76/165
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (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 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.2, para. 114)]
76/165.
Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the promotion of a democratic and
equitable international order, including resolution 75/178 of 16 December 2020, and
Human Rights Council resolutions 18/6 of 29 September 2011, 1 33/3 of 29 September
2016, 2 36/4 of 28 September 2017, 3 39/4 of 27 September 2018, 4 42/8 of
26 September 2019, 5 45/4 of 6 October 2020 6 and 48/8 of 8 October 2021,
Reaffirming the commitment of all States to fulfil their obligations to promote
universal respect for, and observance and protection of, all human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, in accordance with the Charter of t he United Nations,
other instruments relating to human rights and international law,
Affirming that the enhancement of international cooperation for the promotion
and protection of all human rights for all should continue to be carried out in full
conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter and international law, as
set forth in Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter, and with full respect for, inter alia,
sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, the non -use of force or the
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and A/66/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/71/53/Add.1 and
A/71/53/Add.1/Corr.1), chap. II.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/73/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/74/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/75/53/Add.1), chap. III.
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