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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2013 Sep

Session: 24th Regular Session (2013 Sep)

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

GE.13-17610

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

Algeria*, Cuba*, Egypt*, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia*, South Africa*,

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

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Reminds States of their obligation to respect and fully protect the civil, political,

economic, social and cultural rights of all individuals to, inter alia, freedom of peaceful

assembly, association, opinion and expression, online as well as offline, including for

persons espousing minority or dissenting views or beliefs, as well as the right to

development, and that respect for all such rights, in relation to civil society, contributes to

addressing and resolving challenges and issues that are important to society,

* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.