A/RES/75/267
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 March 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 56
Questions relating to information
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 25 March 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.68 and A/75/L.68/Add.1)]
75/267.
Global Media and Information Literacy Week
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Recalling article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2
and article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3
Recalling also its resolutions 75/101 A of 10 December 2020, entitled
“Information in the service of humanity”, and 75/101 B of 10 December 2020, entitled
“United Nations global communications policies and activities”,
Recalling further its resolution 75/202 of 21 December 2020, in which it
recognized the need for people to have media and information literacy skills and
welcomed the holding of Global Media and Information Literacy Week from 24 to
31 October 2020,
Welcoming resolution 56 adopted unanimously on 25 November 2019 by the
General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization at its fortieth session, proclaiming 24 to 31 October of each year as
Global Media and Information Literacy Week, 4
Reaffirming its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Econom ic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries,
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21-04094 (E)
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General
Conference, Fortieth Session, Paris, 12–27 November 2019, vol. 1, sect. IV.
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