28/L.38 Prevention of genocide

GE.15-06364 (E)

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Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Cuba, India, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): amendment to draft resolution

A/HRC/28/L.25

28/…Prevention of genocide

Paragraph 17 should read

17. Reiterates the importance, when addressing complex situations that might

lead to genocide as defined in the Convention, of a prompt and comprehensive examination

of a set of multiple factors, including legal factors and possible warning signs as identified

in, inter alia, the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Five-Point

Action Plan and the frameworks of analysis developed by the Special Adviser on the

Prevention of Genocide, such as the existence of groups at risk, the massive, serious and

systematic violation of human rights, the resurgence of systematic discrimination and the

prevalence of expressions of hate speech targeting persons belonging to national, ethnic,

racial or religious groups, especially if they are uttered in the context of an actual or

potential outbreak of violence;