31/L.42 Protecting human rights defenders addressing economic, social and cultural rights
Document Type: Amendment Resolution
Date: 2016 Mar
Session: 31st Regular Session (2016 Feb)
Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
- Main sponsors5
- Co-sponsors3
-
- In Favour
Bangladesh
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Burundi
China
Cuba
Ecuador
India
Nigeria
Qatar
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Viet Nam
Human Rights Council Thirty-first 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, Egypt,* Pakistan, * Russian Federation: amendment to draft resolution
A/HRC/31/L.28
31/… Protecting human rights defenders addressing economic, social and cultural rights
Delete the third and fourth preambular paragraphs, and insert a new paragraph
reading
Recalling General Assembly resolution 53/144 of 9 December 1998, by which the
Assembly adopted by consensus the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of
Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and all previous General Assembly and Human
Rights Council resolutions on this subject,
* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.
United Nations A/HRC/31/L.42