A/RES/70/109
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 16
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.21 and Add.1)]
70/109. A world against violence and violent extremism
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles set forth in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1
Reaffirming its resolutions 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, 36/103 of
9 December 1981, 39/11 of 12 November 1984, 49/60 of 9 December 1994, 53/243
of 13 September 1999, 55/282 of 7 September 2001, 56/6 of 9 November 2001,
60/288 of 8 September 2006, 64/14 of 10 November 2009, 66/171 of 19 December
2011, 67/99 of 14 December 2012 and 67/173, 67/178 and 67/179 of 20 December
2012 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,2 and reaffirming also its
resolution on the most recent review of the United Nations Global CounterTerrorism Strategy, 3 in which it urged Member States to unite against violent
extremism in all its forms and manifestations, and its resolutions 69/174 and 69/175
of 18 December 2014,
Recalling with appreciation the high-level thematic debate of the General
Assembly on the topic “Promoting tolerance and reconciliation: fostering peaceful,
inclusive societies and countering violent extremism”, held on 21 and 22 April 2015,
Reaffirming that the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter include,
inter alia, to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the
principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, to take other appropriate
measures to strengthen universal peace, and to achieve international cooperation in
solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian
character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of any kind such as to race, colour,
sex, language, religion, political or other opinions, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
3
Resolution 68/276.
2
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