22/L.38 Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/22/L.30 on the prevention of genocide

GE.13-12254

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. Also reaffirms that, as underlined in paragraph 13 of the outcome document

of the Durban Review Conference, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that

constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence should be prohibited by law,

that all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, or incitement to racial

discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts, shall be declared

offences punishable by law, in accordance with the international obligations of States, and

that these prohibitions are consistent with freedom of opinion and expression;

* Non-Member State of the Human Rights Council.