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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2016 Sep

Session: 33rd Regular Session (2016 Sep)

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

GE.16-16678(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-third session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Cuba, Russian Federation, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): amendment to draft

resolution A/HRC/33/L.28

33/… Equal participation in political and public affairs

1. Paragraph 8

Paragraph 8 should read

8. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize a one-day open-

ended intergovernmental workshop to discuss the most effective ways to address existing

gaps and challenges in the implementation of the international obligations of States with

regard to the right to participate in public affairs, as set out in article 25 of the International

Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and to prepare a summary report on the workshop

and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-sixth session;

2. Paragraphs 9 and 10

Delete paragraphs 9 and 10.