Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of a long-term programme of work of the Commission

UN Commission on Human Rights, Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of a long-term programme of work of the Commission, E/CN.4/RES/5(XXXII), 27 February 1976, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unchr/1976/57434 [accessed 13 July 2026]
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5 (XXXII). Further promotion and encouragement of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the question of a long-term programme of work of the Commission[1]6

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling the determination of the peoples of the United Nations to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations and to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, Recalling further the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil arid Political Rights, article 6 of which states that "Every human being has the inherent right to life", Believing that gross and massive violations of human rights, particularly those resulting from wars of aggression, military occupation, colonialism, neo-colonialism and any other form of the denial of the right of peoples to self-determination or from policies of apartheid and racial discrimination, cause unbearable human suffering and may engulf the world in military conflicts, Convinced that the application of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States and of the Declaration and Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New international Economic Order would help considerably to promote economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights and contribute to the strengthening of international peace and security, Taking note of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, in which the participants in the Conference, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations and with the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, reaffirm, inter alia, their commitment to peace security and justice and their determination to respect the equal rights of peoples and their right to self-determination, to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to recognize the universal significance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for which is an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation among States, Recalling the General Assembly's appeals for new initiatives intended to contribute to the peace, security and economic and social progress of all mankind and to respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,

1. Recalls that everyone has the right to live in conditions of international peace and security and fully to enjoy economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights;

2. Expresses its firm conviction that unqualified respect for and the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms require the existence of international peace and security;

3. Welcomes every effort made by States to strengthen world peace and to reduce international tension;

4. Affirms that flagrant and massive violations of human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, may lead the world into armed conflicts;

5. Emphasizes:

(a) The legitimacy of the struggle against all forms of aggression, colonialism and neo-colonialism, against any form of foreign domination and against the practice of genocide and the mass extermination of persons, apartheid and racial discrimination and all other forms of flagrant and massive violations of human rights;

(b) The need for all States to create, both by their own efforts and with international assistance and co-operation, the most favourable conditions for the maintenance of international peace and security through the establishment of a new international economic order based on justice and through respect for and the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to life, liberty and security of person.


[1]6 Adopted at the 1369th meeting, on 27 February 1976, by a roll-call vote of 22 in favour, 7 against and 1 abstention. See chap. VIII.
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