A/RES/76/250
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 16
Culture of peace
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 January 2022
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/76/L.30 and A/76/L.30/Add.1)]
76/250.
Holocaust denial
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 which proclaims that
everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction
of any kind, such as, inter alia, race, religion or other status, and the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 which state that everyone has the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion,
Bearing in mind that the founding principle of the Charter of the United Nations,
“to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”, is testimony to the
indelible link between the United Nations and the unique tragedy of the Second World
War,
Recalling the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which
states that disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts
which have outraged the conscience of mankind,
Recalling also that 2020 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the
Second World War, a war which brought untold sorrow to humankind, particularly in
Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific and other parts of the world,
Recalling further the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide, 3 which was adopted in order to avoid repetition of genocides such
as those committed by the Nazi regime,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 260 A (III), annex.
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