38/L.33 Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts

GE.18-10965(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-eighth session

18 June–6 July 2018

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,* Saudi Arabia: amendment to draft resolution

A/HRC/38/L.6

38/… Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and

girls in digital contexts

Paragraph 11 (d) should read

(d) Ensuring the promotion and protection of the human rights of all women and

their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in accordance with the

Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review

conferences, including through the development and enforcement of policies and legal

frameworks, and strengthening health systems that make quality comprehensive sexual and

reproductive health-care services and commodities universally accessible and available,

including in digital contexts, including, inter alia, safe and effective methods of modern

contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy,

maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, which

will reduce obstetric fistula and other complications of pregnancy and delivery, safe

abortion where such services are permitted by national law, and the prevention and

treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and

reproductive cancers;

* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.