24/L.50 Civil society space: creating and maintaining, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment

GE.13-17596

Human Rights Council Twenty-fourth 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*, Djibouti*, Egypt*, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Russian Federation*,

Saudi Arabia*, Uganda, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): amendment to draft

resolution A/HRC/24/L.24

24/… Civil society space: creating and maintaining, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment

The third preambular paragraph should read

Recalling also all Human Rights Council resolutions relevant to civil society space,

inter alia, resolutions 12/2 of 1 October 2009, on cooperation with the United Nations, its

representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, 12/16 of 2 October 2009 on

freedom of opinion and expression, 21/16 of 27 September 2012, on the rights to freedom

of peaceful assembly and of association, 22/6 of 21 March 2013, on protecting human

rights defenders, 22/10 of 21 March 2013 on the promotion and protection of human rights

in the context of peaceful protests, 21/32 of 28 September 2012, on the right to

development, 22/31 of 22 March 2013, on combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and

stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons

based on religion or belief, and 23/3 of 13 June 2013 on the enhancement of international

cooperation in the field of human rights,

* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.