22/L.37 Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/22/L.30 on the prevention of genocide

GE.13- 12168

Human Rights Council Twenty-second session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Belarus * , China

* , Cuba

* , Djibouti

* , Ecuador, Egypt

* , Iran (Islamic Republic of)

* ,

Nicaragua * , Pakistan, Russian Federation

* , Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): draft

amendment

22/… Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/22/L.30 on the prevention of genocide

After paragraph 8, insert a new paragraph reading

8 bis. Reaffirms the importance of article 4 of the International Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination for preventing the occurrence of

genocide, in which States parties to the Convention condemn all propaganda and all

organizations that are based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of

persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and

discrimination in any form, and undertake to adopt immediate and positive measures

designed to eradicate all incitement to, or acts of, such discrimination and, to that end, with

due regard to the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and

the rights expressly set forth in article 5 of the Convention, inter alia:

(a) Shall declare as an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas

based on racial superiority or hatred, and incitement to racial discrimination, as well as all

acts of violence or incitement to such acts against any race or group of persons of another

colour or ethnic origin, and also the provision of any assistance to racist activities,

including the financing thereof;

(b) Shall declare illegal and prohibit organizations, and organized and all other

propaganda activities, which promote and incite racial discrimination, and shall recognize

participation in such organizations or activities as an offence punishable by law;

(c) Shall not permit public authorities or public institutions, national or local, to

promote or incite racial discrimination;

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Non-Member State of the Human Rights Council.