Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 74Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, published in 1979.

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30 versions · 1968–2005

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Declarations Religious Intolerance

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Commends the Committee for continuing to focus its attention on the just cause of peoples struggling against colonialism, oppression and occupation wherever they exist, particularly in southern Africa, as is within its mandate;

Calls once again upon relevant United Nations bodies to supply the Committee with sufficient information on Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories and all other Territories to which General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 applies to enable it to discharge fully its responsibilities under article 15 of the Convention;

Expresses its grave concern that some States parties to the Convention, for reasons beyond their control, are being prevented from fulfilling their obligations under the Convention in parts of their respective territories, and in this respect supports the opinion expressed by the Committee regarding the persistence of this problem in the Syrian Arab Republic, 22 reiterates its endorsement of Committee decision 1 (XV) of 1 April 197723 and reaffirms its resolution 32/13 of 7 November 1977 as well as its resolutions 2784 (XXVI) of 6 December 1971 and 3266 (XXIX) of 10 December 1974, concerning the situation in the Golan Heights;

Invites the States parties to supply the Committee 1. with all the requested information on their implementation of the principles and provisions of the Convention, including information on the demographic composition of their population and on their relations with the racist regimes in southern Africa, in order to enable the Committee to discharge fully its responsibilities;

Calls upon the States parties to observe fully the provisions of the Convention and other international instruments and agreements to which they are parties concerning the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, and to take effective measures for securing full equality and promotion and protection of the rights of every person, group of persons or national or ethnic minority, as well as full .protection of the rights of migrant workers, by preventing all practices of racial discrimination;

Urges all States which are not parties to the Convention to ratify or to accede to it and, pending such ratification or accession, to be guided by the basic provisions of the Convention in their internal and foreign policies;

Notes with due attention Committee decision 1

of 13 August 197924 concerning the future meetings of the Committee and requests the Secretary-General in this connexion to explore the possibility of providing necessary assistance for the holding of such meetings 22 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/34/18), para. 138.

28 Ibid., Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/32/18), chap. VIII, sect. A.

24 lbid., Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/34/18), chap. VIII, sect. B. VI. Resolutiom adopted on tbe repons of the Third Committee in developing countries and to submit a report in this

34 / 43. Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to continue 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;

Further requests the Commission on Human Rights to strive towards completion of the draft Declaration at its thirty-sixth session with a view to submitting to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a single draft Declaration;

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

34/ 44. Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination and of the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights

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