A/RES/63/181. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2008

• Year: 2008
• Resolution Number: A/RES/63/181
• Session: 63rd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/63/181

General Assembly Distr.: General

16 March 2009

Sixty-third session

Agenda item 64 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)]

63/181. 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,

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article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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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

62/157 of 18 December 2007, as well as Human Rights Council resolution 6/37 of

14 December 2007,

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in which the Council, inter alia, extended the mandate of the

Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief,

Reaffirming

the recognition by the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights

that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and

its call upon all Governments to take all appropriate measures in compliance with

their international obligations and with due regard to their respective legal systems

to counter intolerance and related violence based on religion or belief, including

practices of discrimination against women and the desecration of religious sites,

recognizing that every individual has the right to freedom of thought, conscience,

expression and religion,

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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,

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1 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

2 Resolution 217 A (III).

3 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/63/53), chap. I,

sect. A.

4 See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.