A/RES/76/175
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.2, para. 114)]
76/175.
Ensuring equitable, affordable, timely and universal access for all
countries to vaccines in response to the coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) pandemic
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Stressing that States bear the primary responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil
human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations is 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 fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction of any kind,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, 4 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5 the
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
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