22/L.48 Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/22/L.13 on protecting human rights defenders
Document Type: Amendment Resolution
Date: 2013 Mar
Session: 22nd Regular Session (2013 Feb)
Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
GE.13-12352
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
China * , Cuba
* , Egypt
* , Russian Federation
* : draft amendment
22/… Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/22/L.13 on protecting human rights defenders
After paragraph 2, insert a new paragraph reading
2 bis. Underscores that the legal framework within which human rights defenders
work peacefully to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms is that of
national legislation, consistent with the Charter of the United Nations;
* Non-Member State of the Human Rights Council.