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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2016 Jun

Session: 32nd Regular Session (2016 Jun)

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

GE.16-11094(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-second session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

China, Russian Federation: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/32/L.28

32/… Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls,

including indigenous women and girls

Paragraph 4 should read

4. Continues to express particular concern at violence faced by women of all

ages, including indigenous women and girls engaged in the promotion and protection of

human rights, and calls upon all States to exercise due diligence in preventing violations

and abuses against all engaged in the promotion and protection of human rights, including

through practical steps to prevent threats, harassment and violence against those persons,

who face particular risks, and in combating impunity by ensuring that those responsible for

violations and abuses, including gender-based violence and threats, committed by State and

non-State actors, are promptly brought to justice through impartial investigations;