A/RES/76/162
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)]
76/162.
Human rights and cultural diversity
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2 and the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, 3 as well as other pertinent human rights instruments,
Recalling also its resolutions 54/160 of 17 December 1999, 55/91 of
4 December 2000, 57/204 of 18 December 2002, 58/167 of 22 December 2003, 60/167
of 16 December 2005, 62/155 of 18 December 2007, 64/174 of 18 December 2009,
66/154 of 19 December 2011, 68/159 of 18 December 2013, 70/156 of 17 December
2015, 72/170 of 19 December 2017 and 74/159 of 18 December 2019, and recalling
further its resolutions 54/113 of 10 December 1999, 55/23 of 13 November 2000 and
60/4 of 20 October 2005 concerning the United Nations Year of Dialogue among
Civilizations,
Noting that numerous instruments within the United Nations system promote
cultural diversity, as well as the conservation and development of culture, in particular
the Declaration of the Principles of International Culture Cooperation proclaimed on
4 November 1966 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization at its fourteenth session, 4
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General
Conference, Fourteenth Session, Paris, 1966, Resolutions .
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