A/RES/75/188
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (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 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89)]
75/188.
Freedom of religion or belief
The General Assembly,
Recalling article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1
article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2 and other relevant human
rights provisions,
Recalling also its resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981, by which it
proclaimed the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of
Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief,
Recalling further its previous resolutions on freedom of religion or belief and
on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion
or belief, including its resolution 74/145 of 18 December 2019 and Human Rights
Council resolution 43/12 of 19 June 2020, 3
Recognizing the important work carried out by the Human Rights Committee in
providing guidance with respect to the scope of freedom of religion or belief,
Noting the conclusions and recommendations of the expert workshops organized
by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and
contained in the Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national,
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 217 A (III).
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/75/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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