32/L.83 Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of persons with disabilities
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.16-11075(E)
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
Austria,* Belgium, Bulgaria*, Croatia*, Czech Republic*, Denmark*, Estonia*,
Finland*, France, Germany, Ireland*, Italy*, Luxembourg*, Netherlands, Norway,*
Romania*, Slovenia, Spain*, Sweden*, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, United States of America:* amendment to draft resolution
A/HRC/32/L.35
32/… Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of persons with
disabilities
Paragraph 22 should read
22. Also recognizes that families play a key role in social development, and as
such should be strengthened and attention paid to the rights, capabilities and responsibilities
of its members, and invites States, the organizations of the United Nations system and all
other relevant stakeholders to take into account the role of the family, as a contributor to
sustainable development, and the need to strengthen family policy development in their
ongoing efforts to achieve internationally agreed development goals;
* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.