A/RES/76/157
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2021
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/76/462/Add.2, para. 114)]
76/157.
Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization,
discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against
persons, based on religion or belief
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the commitment made by all States under the Charter of the United
Nations to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to, inter alia, r eligion or
belief,
Welcoming Human Rights Council resolutions 16/18 of 24 March 2011, 1 19/25
of 23 March 2012, 2 22/31 of 22 March 2013, 3 28/29 of 27 March 2015, 4 31/26 of
24 March 2016, 5 34/32 of 24 March 2017, 6 37/38 of 23 March 2018, 7 40/25 of
22 March 2019 8 and 43/34 of 22 June 2020, 9 and General Assembly resolutions
67/178 of 20 December 2012, 68/169 of 18 December 2013, 69/174 of 18 December
2014, 70/157 of 17 December 2015, 71/195 of 19 December 2016, 72/176 of
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53),
chap. II, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and A/67/53/Corr.1),
chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/74/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/75/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
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