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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2017 Sep

Session: 36th Regular Session (2017 Sep)

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

GE.17-16872(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-sixth session

11–29 September 2017

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates: amendment

to draft resolution A/HRC/36/L.6

36/ The question of the death penalty

Before paragraph 1, insert a new paragraph reading

1. Recognizes that the application of a moratorium on the death penalty, abolishing the

death penalty or retaining it should be a decision based on domestic debates at the national

level;