33/L.37 Human rights and transitional justice
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
- Main sponsors1
- Co-sponsors3
GE.16-16665(E)
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
China, Cuba, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): amendment to draft resolution
A/HRC/33/L.10
33/… Human rights and transitional justice
Paragraph 7 should read
7. Calls upon States to work to prevent potential situations that could result in
gross violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international
humanitarian law, in particular genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, crimes against
humanity, and, in relevant contexts, to timely and efficiently address the legacy of past
atrocities in order to prevent their recurrence, including through cooperation with the
Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and the Special
Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence;