A/RES/76/179
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs
and representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.3, para. 34)]
76/179.
Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous
Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 international human rights
treaties and other relevant international instruments and declarations,
Recalling the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, 2 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 3 the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights 4 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 5
Recalling also the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 6 and Additional
Protocol I thereto, of 1977, 7 as applicable, as well as relevant customary international
law,
Confirming the primary responsibility of States to promote and protect human
rights,
Reaffirming the responsibility of States to respect international law, including
the principle that all States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 660, No. 9464.
Ibid., vol. 1465, No. 24841.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 61/295, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, No. 17512.
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