A/HRC/RES/58/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 April 2025
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-eighth session
24 February–4 April 2025
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2025
58/11.
Promotion of the enjoyment of the cultural rights of everyone and
respect for cultural diversity
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and all other relevant human rights
instruments,
Recalling also all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on
Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the promotion of the enjoyment of the
cultural rights of everyone and respect for cultural diversity,
Welcoming General Assembly resolution 78/286 of 7 June 2024, in which the
Assembly declared 10 June the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations,
Noting the declarations within the United Nations system on cultural diversity and
international cultural cooperation, in particular the Declaration of the Principles of
International Cultural Cooperation and the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity,
adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization in 1966 and 2001 respectively,
Welcoming the increasing number of States Parties to the Convention on the
Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which was adopted by
the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization on 20 October 2005 and entered into force on 18 March 2007,
Convinced that international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for
human rights and fundamental freedoms for all should be based on an understanding of the
economic, social and cultural specificities of each country and the full realization and
recognition of the universality of all human rights and the principles of freedom, justice,
equality and non-discrimination,
Recognizing that cultural diversity and the pursuit of cultural development by all
peoples and nations are a source of mutual enrichment for the cultural life of humankind,
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