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Draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief

Publisher UN Commission on Human Rights
Publication Date 10 March 1981
Citation / Document Symbol E/CN.4/RES/20(XXXVII)
Reference THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION, 1981
Cite as UN Commission on Human Rights, Draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief , 10 March 1981, E/CN.4/RES/20(XXXVII), available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f0ba58.html [accessed 5 June 2023]

20 (XXXVII). Draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief[1]48

The Committee on Human Rights,

Recalling General Assembly 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 a single draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination based on Religion or Belief,

Bearing in mind that the General Assembly in its resolution 35/125 of 11 December 1980, urged the Commission on Human Rights to complete its work on the matter at its thirty-seventh session with a view to submitting to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a single draft declaration,

Having decided by resolution 35 (XXXVI) of 12 March 1980, to continue at its thirty-seventh session, as a matter of highest priority, its work on the draft declaration and to complete the formulation of the declaration at that session,

Approving of the report of the Working Group on the draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination based on Religion or Belief,

1. Decides to adopt the draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination based on Religion or Belief, as contained in the annex to the present resolution;

2. Recommends the following draft resolution for adoption by the Economic and Social Council:

[For the text see chap. I, sect. A, draft resolution I.]



[1]48 Adopted at the 1636th meeting, on 10 March 1981, by 33 votes to none, with 5 abstentions. See chap. XVII.

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