United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/65/211
Distr.: General
30 March 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.2 (Part II))]
65/211. Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of
discrimination based on religion or belief
The General Assembly,
Recalling 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 also article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, 1 article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2 and other relevant
human rights provisions,
Recalling further its previous resolutions on the elimination of all forms of
intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief, including resolution
64/164 of 18 December 2009, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 14/11 of
18 June 2010, 3
Recognizing the important work carried out by the Human Rights Committee
in providing guidance with respect to the scope of freedom of religion or belief,
Considering that religion or belief, for those who profess either, is one of the
fundamental elements in their conception of life and that freedom of religion or
belief should be fully respected and guaranteed,
Reaffirming that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion or belief, which includes the freedom to have or not to have, or to adopt, a
religion or belief of one’s own choice and the freedom, either alone or in community
with others and in public or private, to manifest one’s religion or belief in teaching,
practice, worship and observance,
Deeply concerned about continuing acts of intolerance and violence based on
religion or belief against individuals and members of religious communities and
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1
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum
(A/65/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
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