A/RES/75/258
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 January 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 15
Culture of peace
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 21 January 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.54 and A/75/L.54/Add.1)]
75/258.
Promoting a culture of peace and tolerance to safeguard
religious sites
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 in particular the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and the International Covenant on Civ il
and Political Rights, 2
Reaffirming also the commitment to the Declaration on the Elimination of All
Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, proclaimed
by the General Assembly in its resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981, as well as the
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities, proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/135 of
18 December 1992,
Recognizing the importance of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a
Culture of Peace, 3 which serve as the universal mandate for the international
community, particularly the United Nations system, for the promotion of a culture of
peace and non-violence that benefits humanity, in particular future generations,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 72/17 of 1 December 2017, 72/130 of
8 December 2017, 73/328 and 73/329 of 25 July 2019 and 74/145 and 74/164 of
18 December 2019, and Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 of 24 March 2011,
which urge all Member States to take all appropriate measures to counter hatred, hate
speech, stigmatization, incitement to violence, negative stereotyping of persons based
on their religion or belief, intolerance and other acts of violence, by encouraging
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolutions 53/243 A and B.
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