A/HRC/25/L.56
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
27 March 2014
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-fifth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Algeria, Bahrain,* Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates:
amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/25/L.18/Rev.1
25/… Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate
standard of living
The first preambular paragraph should read
Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and
the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the General Assembly in its
resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986, and emphasizing that these two instruments oblige
States to strive for the realization of all economic, social and cultural rights, including the
right to development and, in particular, adequate housing as a component of the right to an
adequate standard of living and the right to non-discrimination in this context,
* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.
GE.14-12645
*1412645*
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