Elimination of all forms of religious intelerance.

  • Author: UN General Assembly (32nd sess. : 1977)
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    16 December 1977

32. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
143. Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance

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 to the General Assembly, through the Economic and Social Council, a single draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, Noting the actions of the Working Group established by the Commission on Human Rights at its thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second and thirty-third 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 resolution 11 (XXXIII) of 11 March 1977,[1] by which the Commission established an open-ended working group which would meet three times a week during its thirty-fourth 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, Recalling also its resolution 31/138 of 16 December 1976, Noting that the Commission on Human Rights has so far been unable to present the text of such a declaration,

1. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to give this matter the priority necessary to finalize the draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief;

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

105th plenary meeting
16 December 1977


[1] See Official Records of the Economic an Social Council, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/5927), chap. XXI, sect. A.
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