24/L.52 Civil society space: creating and maintaining, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment
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
- Main sponsors10
- Co-sponsors22
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
Paragraph 1 should read
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.