35/L.40 Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls

GE.17-10189(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-fifth session

6–23 June 2017

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Egypt, Russian Federation:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/35/L.15

35/… Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence

against all women and girls

Paragraph 9 (g) should read

(g) Developing and implementing educational programmes and teaching

materials, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner

consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from

parents and legal guardians, with the active involvement of all relevant stakeholders, in

order to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, to

eliminate prejudices and to promote and build decision-making, communication and risk

reduction skills for the development of respectful relationships based on gender equality

and human rights, as well as teacher education and training programmes for both formal

and non-formal education;

* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.