A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/53/140 1 March 1999 Fifty-third session Agenda item 110 (b) RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/53/625/Add.2)] 53/140. Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance The General Assembly, Recalling that all States have pledged themselves, under the Charter of the United Nations, to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, Reaffirming that discrimination against human beings on the grounds of religion or belief constitutes an affront to human dignity and a disavowal of the principles of the Charter, Recalling, in this fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 article 18 of the Declaration, Reaffirming 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, Recalling article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2 1 Resolution 217 A (III). 2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 99-77053 /...

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