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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2013 Jun

Session: 23rd Regular Session (2013 May)

Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

GE.13-14692

Human Rights Council Twenty-third session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Algeria*, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)*, China*, Cuba*, Ecuador, Egypt*, El Salvador*, Pakistan, Russian Federation*, Saudi Arabia*, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): draft amendment

23/…Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/23/L.28

The sixth preambular paragraph should read

Recognizing that rape or any other form of sexual violence is unlawful in all circumstances and in all places, regardless of the sex, age and ethnicity of the victim, including in detention or in jail, whether or not committed by State or non-State actors in the course of achieving political or military objectives, whether or not in the course of an international or non-international armed conflict, or in areas under foreign occupation,

* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.