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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/128
14 February 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 114 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/48/632/Add.2)]
48/128.
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,
Recognizing that those rights derive from the inherent dignity of the
human person,
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,
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 its resolution 47/129 of 18 December 1992, in which it
requested the Commission on Human Rights to continue its consideration of
measures to implement the Declaration,
Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/25 of 5 March
1993, 1/
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1/
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993,
Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect. A.
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