United Nations
A/RES/69/175
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/488/Add.2 and Corr.1)]
69/175. Freedom of religion or belief
The General Assembly,
Recalling 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 also article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights,1 article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights2 and other relevant
human rights provisions,
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 resolution 68/170 of 18 December 2013, and Human
Rights Council resolution 25/12 of 27 March 2014,3
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, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination,
hostility or violence, adopted in Rabat on 5 October 2012,4
Considering that religion or belief, for those who profess either, is one of the
fundamental elements in their conception of life and that freedom of religion or
belief, as a universal human right, should be fully respected and guaranteed,
Seriously concerned at continuing acts of intolerance and violence based on
religion or belief against individuals, including against persons belonging to
religious communities and religious minorities around the world, and at the
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1
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),
chap. IV, sect. A.
4
A/HRC/22/17/Add.4, appendix.
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