A/RES/73/164
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 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)]
73/164.
Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization,
discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against
persons, based on religion or belief
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the commitment made by all States under the Charter of the United
Nations to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to, inter alia, religion or
belief,
Welcoming Human Rights Council resolutions 16/18 of 24 March 2011, 1
19/25 of 23 March 2012, 2 22/31 of 22 March 2013, 3 28/29 of 27 March 2015, 4
31/26 of 24 March 2016, 5 34/32 of 24 March 2017 6 and 37/38 of 23 March 2018 7 and
General Assembly resolutions 67/178 of 20 December 2012, 68/169 of 18 December
2013, 69/174 of 18 December 2014, 70/157 of 17 December 2015, 71/195 of
19 December 2016 and 72/176 of 19 December 2017,
Reaffirming the obligation of States to prohibit discrimination and violence on
the basis of religion or belief and to implement measures to guarantee the equal and
effective protection of the law,
Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent
and interrelated,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53),
chap. II, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and A/67/53/Corr.1),
chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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