United Nations A/RES/71/195 General Assembly Distr.: General 23 January 2017 Seventy-first session Agenda item 68 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.2)] 71/195. 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 alia, 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 and 31/26 of 24 March 2016 5 and General Assembly resolutions 67/178 of 20 December 2012, 68/169 of 18 December 2013, 69/174 of 18 December 2014 and 70/157 of 17 December 2015, 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 interdependent and interrelated, human rights are universal, indivisible, Reaffirming further that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 6 provides, inter alia, that everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief, which shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of one’s choice and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, and to manifest one’s religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching, _______________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. II, sect. A. 2 Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A. 3 Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. IV, sect. A. 4 Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. III, sect. A. 5 Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. IV, sect. A. 6 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 16-22567 (E) *1622567* Please recycle