32/L.43 Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls

GE.16-11085(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

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 7 (c) should read

(c) Taking measures to empower women by, inter alia, strengthening their

economic autonomy and ensuring their full and equal participation in society and in

decision-making processes by adopting and implementing social and economic policies that

guarantee women full and equal access to quality education and training, and affordable

and adequate public and social services, as well as full and equal access to financial

resources and decent work, and full and equal rights to own and have access to and control

over land and other property, and guaranteeing women’s and girls’ inheritance rights;