A/HRC/27/L.34
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
24 September 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-seventh session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Bahrain,* China, Cuba, Egypt, * Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates,
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/27/L.24
27/… Civil society space
The fourth preambular paragraph should read
Recalling also all Human Rights Council resolutions relevant to creating and
maintaining civil society space, inter alia, resolutions 12/16 of 2 October 2009, on freedom
of opinion and expression, 21/16 of 27 September 2012, on the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and of association, 22/6 of 21 March 2013, on protecting human rights
defenders, 24/8 of 26 September 2013 on equal political participation, 24/21 of 27
September 2013 on civil society space: creating and maintaining, in law and in practice, a
safe and enabling environment, and 26/13 of 26 June 2014, on the promotion, protection
and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet,
* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.
GE.14-17177 (E)
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