Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance.

33. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE*
106. Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance

The General Assembly, Recalling article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,[1] proclaiming that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, Noting that during the thirty years of its existence many portions of the Declaration have been expanded into various international instruments, while article 18 has thus far not been so elaborated, Still desirous to see article 18 followed by a declaration on the elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, Recalling its resolution 3027 (XXVII) of 18 December 1972, in which it decided to accord priority to the completion of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance before resuming consideration of the draft international convention on this subject, Recalling also 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, and its resolutions 31/138 of 16 December 1976 and 32/143 of 16 December 1977, in which it urged the Commission to speed up its work so that the draft Declaration might be finalized, Noting with regret that the Commission on Human Rights has reported, through the Economic and Social Council, that it has as yet not completed the draft Declaration, Noting further the efforts undertaken by the informal working group set up by the Commission on Human Rights in elaborating a generally acceptable text of the Declaration, taking into account the relevant United Nations documents, Taking account of the fact that, since the Commission on Human Rights has undertaken to draft the Declaration in response to the request made to it in General Assembly resolution 3267 (XXIX), the informal working group set up by the Commission at each of its sessions since 1974 has so far adopted the title and preamble of a draft Declaration,[2]

1. Requests the Commission on Human Rights at its thirty-fifth session to give high priority to the drafting of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief and to strive towards completion of the draft Declaration at that session;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Commission on Human Rights the provisions of existing international instruments which relate to the problem of religious intolerance;

3. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to instruct its working group which has been established to carry out this task to set a time-table for a full consideration of the remaining articles of the draft Declaration during the thirty-fifth session of the Commission;

4. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session, 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;

5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fourth session the item entitled "Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance" and to give it high priority.

86th plenary meeting
16 December 1978

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[1]2 Resolution 217 A (III). [2]3 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/5927), para. 198.