32/L.56 Civil society space
Document Type: Amendment Resolution
Date: 2016 Jun
Session: 32nd Regular Session (2016 Jun)
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-sponsors5
GE.16-11107(E)
Human Rights Council Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
China, Russian Federation: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/32/L.29
32/… Civil society space
The twelfth preambular paragraph should read
Deeply concerned that, in some instances, domestic legal and administrative
provisions, such as national security and counter-terrorism legislation, and other measures,
such as provisions on funding to civil society actors, or registration or reporting
requirements, have sought to or have been misused to hinder the work and endanger the
safety of civil society, and recognizing the urgent need to prevent and stop the misuse of
such provisions, and to review and, where necessary, amend any relevant provisions in
order to ensure their compliance with the relevant State’s international human rights
obligations,