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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

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

Paragraph 18 should read

18. Encourages all States to engage in initiatives to promote effective prevention,

accountability, remedy and reparations with a view to protecting the human rights of

everyone, including from human rights abuses by business enterprises;

* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.

United Nations A/HRC/31/L.69