A/RES/76/254
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 March 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 16
Culture of peace
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
15 March 2022
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/76/L.41 and A/76/L.41/Add.1)]
76/254.
International Day to Combat Islamophobia
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 for the promotion and protection of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons,
Recalling its relevant resolutions, including resolution 75/187 of 16 December
2020 on combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization, discrimination,
incitement to violence and violence against persons, based on religion or belief, an d
resolution 75/188 of 16 December 2020 on freedom of religion or belief,
Recalling also 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, and its resolution 73/296 of 28 May
2019, in which it decided to designate 22 August as the International Day
Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief,
Emphasizing that freedom of religion or belief, freedom of opinion and
expression, the right to peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of association are
interdependent, interrelated and mutually reinforcing, and stressing the role that these
rights can play in the fight against all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based
on religion or belief,
Recognizing with deep concern the overall rise in instances of discrimination,
intolerance and violence, regardless of the actors, directed against members of many
religious and other communities in various parts of the world, including cases
motivated by Islamophobia, antisemitism and Christianophobia and prejudices
against persons of other religions or beliefs,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
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