A/RES/72/241
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 15
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.32 and A/72/L.32/Add.1)]
72/241.
A world against violence and violent extremism
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles set forth in the Charter of the United
Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Reaffirming its resolutions 2625 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, 36/103 of
9 December 1981, 39/11 of 12 November 1984, 49/60 of 9 December 1994, 53/243 of
13 September 1999, 55/282 of 7 September 2001, 56/6 of 9 November 2001, 60/288 of
8 September 2006, 64/14 of 10 November 2009, 66/171 of 19 December 2011, 67/99 of
14 December 2012 and 67/173, 67/178 and 67/179 of 20 December 2012 and the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action, 2 and reaffirming also its resolution on the most
recent review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, 3 in which it
urged Member States to unite against violent extremism as and when conducive to
terrorism, and its resolutions 69/174 and 69/175 of 18 December 2014,
Recalling with appreciation the high-level thematic debate of the General
Assembly on the topic “Promoting tolerance and reconciliation: fostering peaceful,
inclusive societies and countering violent extremism”, held on 21 and 22 April 2015,
and the high-level conversation on religions for peace, held by the Assembly on 6 May
2016,
Reaffirming that the purposes and principles embodied in the Charter include, inter
alia, to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of
equal rights and self-determination of peoples, to take other appropriate measures to
strengthen universal peace, and to achieve international cooperation in solving
international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and
in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Resolution 70/291.
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