Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief.

  • Author: UN General Assembly (31st sess. : 1976)
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    16 December 1976

31. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE*
138. Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief

The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 1781 (XVII) of 7 December 1962 and 3069 (XXVIII) of 30 November 1973, as well as its resolution 3267 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974 in which it requested the Commission on Human Rights to submit, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session a single draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, Recalling also its decision of 15 December 1975[1] to consider with appropriate priority, at its thirty-first session, the question of the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, Noting the actions of the Working Group established by the Commission on Human Rights at its thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second sessions with a view to elaborating a draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, Noting also Commission on Human Rights decision 7 (XXXII) of 5 March 1976,[2] by which the Commission established an open-ended working group which would meet three times a week during its thirty-third session, beginning in the first week of the session, and requested the Secretary-General to provide the necessary facilities for the work of the group,

1. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to speed up its work on the elaboration of a single draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief and to submit a progress report, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session;

2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-second session the item entitled "Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance".

102nd plenary meeting
16 December 1976


[1] Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 34 (A/10034), pp. 99 and 100, item 79. [2] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 3 (E/5768), chap. XX, sect. B.
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