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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.13-14706

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

Operative paragraph 19 should read

19. Invites the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to make available to the State concerned, upon its request, the rapid deployment of expertise to investigate allegations of mass rape or systematic sexual violence, including by utilizing existing regionally diverse and gender-balanced multilateral rosters of readily deployable trained professionals, such as the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women/Justice Rapid Response joint roster of international investigators of sexual and gender-based crimes;

* Non-Member State of the Human Rights Council.

United Nations A/HRC/23/L.35

General Assembly Distr.: Limited 11 June 2013