A/RES/72/176 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 29 January 2018 Seventy-second session Agenda item 72 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2017 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)] 72/176. Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization, discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons, based on religion or belief The General Assembly, Reaffirming the commitment made by all States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of all human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to, inter a lia, religion or belief, Welcoming Human Rights Council resolutions 16/18 of 24 March 2011, 1 19/25 of 23 March 2012, 2 22/31 of 22 March 2013, 3 28/29 of 27 March 2015, 4 31/26 of 24 March 2016 5 and 34/32 of 24 March 2017 6 and General Assembly resolutions 67/178 of 20 December 2012, 68/169 of 18 December 2013, 69/174 of 18 December 2014, 70/157 of 17 December 2015 and 71/195 of 19 December 2016, Reaffirming the obligation of States to prohibit discrimination and violence on the basis of religion or belief and to implement measures to guarantee the equal and effective protection of the law, Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 17-22992 (E) See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. II, sect. A. Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and A/67/53/Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A. Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A. Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. III, sect. A. Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. IV, sect. A. Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. IV, sect. A. 010218 *1722992*