United Nations
A/RES/70/139
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 70 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/487)]
70/139. Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other
practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms
of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 3 and other relevant
human rights instruments,
Recalling the provisions of Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2004/16 of
16 April 2004 4 and 2005/5 of 14 April 2005 5 and relevant Human Rights Council
resolutions, in particular resolutions 7/34 of 28 March 2008,6 18/15 of 29 September 20117
and 21/33 of 28 September 2012,8 as well as its resolutions 60/143 of 16 December 2005,
61/147 of 19 December 2006, 62/142 of 18 December 2007, 63/162 of 18 December 2008,
64/147 of 18 December 2009, 65/199 of 21 December 2010, 66/143 of 19 December 2011,
67/154 of 20 December 2012, 68/150 of 18 December 2013 and 69/160 of 18 December
2014 on this issue, resolutions 61/149 of 19 December 2006, 62/220 of 22 December 2007,
63/242 of 24 December 2008, 64/148 of 18 December 2009, 65/240 of 24 December 2010,
66/144 of 19 December 2011, 67/155 of 20 December 2012 and 68/151 of 18 December
2013, and its resolution 69/162 of 18 December 2014, entitled “A global call for concrete
action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action”,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
5
Ibid., 2005, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/2005/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.
6
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. II.
7
Ibid., Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. II.
8
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. II.
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