UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY · 2025-12-18
Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
A/RES/80/199 · Adopted 18 December 2025
Promote protections for people belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.
Minority rights concern people whose national, ethnic, religious or linguistic identity differs from a wider population. This resolution concerns implementing the UN declaration protecting those rights. The vote concerns this resolution as a whole. Adopted on 2025-12-18: 173 for, 1 against and 3 abstentions. Your board uses eight selected recorded country votes. The record does not establish a country's motives.
Overall recorded result
- For
- 173
- Against
- 1
- Abstain
- 3
These are totals for the full recorded vote. The country table below shows only the eight countries in our puzzle dataset. An absent country is not counted as abstaining.
Selected countries at a glance
For the eight countries in our puzzle dataset:
- FOR: Belarus, Brazil, Austria, Canada, Australia
- AGAINST: United States
- ABSTAIN: Israel, Argentina
Eight recorded country votes
These eight countries are the selected Eight Votes challenge, not the complete UN voting roster. The vote alone does not establish a government’s motive or its position on the broader subject.
| Country | Recorded vote |
|---|---|
| Argentina | ABSTAIN |
| Australia | FOR |
| Austria | FOR |
| Belarus | FOR |
| Brazil | FOR |
| Canada | FOR |
| Israel | ABSTAIN |
| United States | AGAINST |
Source and context
UN recorded plenary vote ↗ (external source)
Resolution A/RES/80/199 ↗ (external source)
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