A/RES/76/162. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2021

• Resolution Number: A/RES/76/162
• Year: 2021
• Session: 76th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /76/ 162

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

7 Jan uary 20 22

21-192 21 (E) 1 201 22

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Seventy -sixth sess ion

Agen da item 74 (b)

Promoti on and protec tion of huma n rights: hu man

rights questions, i ncluding al ternative ap proaches for

improvi ng the effec tive enjoyme nt of human r ights and

fundame ntal freedom s

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 16 December 2021

[on th e report of the Third Committ ee (A/76/ 462/Add. 2, para. 114)]

76/162. Human rights and cultural diversity

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g the Uni versal Dec laration of Hu man Right s,

1

the Inter national

Cove nant o n Eco nomic, Social and Cultural Right s

2

an d the Intern ational Coven ant

on C ivil and Politic al Right s,

3

as w ell as o ther pe rtinent human ri ghts in strument s,

Reca llin g als o it s resolu tions 5 4/160 o f 17 De cember 1 999, 5 5/91 of

4 Decem ber 2000, 5 7/204 of 18 December 2 002, 58/167 of 22 Dece mber 2003, 60/167

of 16 Dec ember 2005, 62/155 of 1 8 Dece mber 2007, 64/174 of 18 Dece mber 2 009,

66/1 54 of 1 9 Decem ber 2011 , 68/15 9 of 18 Decem ber 201 3, 70/1 56 of 1 7 Decem ber

2015 , 72/17 0 of 19 Dece mber 2 017 an d 74/1 59 of 18 Dec ember 2019, a nd reca lling

furth er its r esolutio ns 54/11 3 of 10 Decembe r 1999, 55/23 o f 13 Nov ember 20 00 and

60/4 of 2 0 October 2005 co ncerning the Un ited Nation s Year of Dial ogue among

Civil izations,

Noti ng that nume rous instrum ents within the Unit ed N ations syste m pr omote

cultu ral diver sity, as well as th e conserv ation and de velopmen t of cultur e, in particu lar

the Declarat ion of t he Prin ciples of Intern ational Culture Coopera tion pr oclaimed on

4 Novem ber 1966 by the Gen eral Confe rence of the Un ited Nation s E ducatio nal,

Scie ntific an d Cultu ral Orga nization at its fourteen th sess ion,

4

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1

Reso lution 217 A (II I).

2

See resolut ion 22 00 A (XXI ), ann ex.

3

Ibid.

4

See United Nation s Educ ationa l, Scie ntific and Cu ltural Organi zation , Rec ords of the Ge neral

Conf erence, Fourte enth S ession , Paris , 1966 , Reso lutions .