A/RES/76/161
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)]
76/161.
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its previous resolutions on this subject, the most recent of which
was resolution 75/181 of 16 December 2020, and Human Rights Council decision
18/120 of 30 September 2011 1 and resolutions 24/14 of 27 September 2013, 2 27/21 of
26 September 2014, 3 30/2 of 1 October 2015, 4 36/10 of 28 September 2017, 5 37/21 of
23 March 2018, 6 40/3 of 21 March 2019, 7 43/15 of 22 June 2020 8 and 46/5 of
23 March 2021, 9 as well as previous resolutions of the Council and the Commission
on Human Rights,
Reaffirming the pertinent principles and provisions contained in the Charter of
Economic Rights and Duties of States proclaimed by the General Assembly in its
resolution 3281 (XXIX) of 12 December 1974, in particular article 32 thereof, in
which it declared that no State may use or encourage the use of economic, political
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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. III.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/68/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1,
A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/70/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/72/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/74/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/75/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/76/53), chap. V, sect. A.
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