United Nations
A/RES/58/184
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 March 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 117 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/508/Add.2)]
58/184. Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance
The General Assembly,
Recalling that all States have pledged themselves, under the Charter of the
United Nations, to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of
human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex,
language or religion,
Reaffirming that discrimination against human beings on the grounds of
religion or belief constitutes an affront to human dignity and a disavowal of the
principles of the Charter,
Recalling article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 article 18
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and paragraph 4 of the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3
Reaffirming its resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981, by which it proclaimed
the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of
Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief,
Noting the provisions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
adopted by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August
to 8 September 2001, 4 aimed at combating religious intolerance,
Emphasizing that the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and
belief is far-reaching and profound and that it encompasses freedom of thought on
all matters, personal conviction and the commitment to religion or belief, whether
manifested individually or in community with others, and in public or in private,
Reaffirming the call, made ten years ago in Vienna at the World Conference on
Human Rights, for all Governments to take all appropriate measures in compliance
with their international obligations and with due regard to their respective legal
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
See A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, chap. I.
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