33/L.41 Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights

GE.16-16755(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-third session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Russian Federation: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/33/L.3/Rev.1

33/… Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights

The tenth preambular paragraph should read

Reaffirming that States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social

and Cultural Rights have an obligation to take steps to achieve the full realization of the

right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental

health, including sexual and reproductive health, as an integral part of that right,