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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2014 Jun

Session: 26th Regular Session (2014 Jun)

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

Co-sponsors23
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cape Verde
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Haiti
- Italy
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- San Marino
- Sudan
- Togo
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

GE.14-06486 (E)

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Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Bahrain,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Brunei Darussalam,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. China, Egypt,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. India, Iran (Islamic Republic of),Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Malaysia,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Myanmar,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Pakistan, Qatar,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Saudi Arabia, Singapore,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Sudan,Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. Viet Nam: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/26/L.8/Rev.1

26/… The question of the death penalty

Above paragraph 1, insert a new paragraph reading

1. Reaffirms the sovereign right of all countries to develop their own legal systems, including determining appropriate legal penalties, in accordance with their international law obligations;