A/HRC/22/L.37 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 18 March 2013 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-second session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Belarus*, China*, Cuba*, Djibouti*, Ecuador, Egypt*, Iran (Islamic Republic of)*, Nicaragua*, Pakistan, Russian Federation*, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): draft amendment 22/… Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/22/L.30 on the prevention of genocide After paragraph 8, insert a new paragraph reading 8 bis. Reaffirms the importance of article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination for preventing the occurrence of genocide, in which States parties to the Convention condemn all propaganda and all organizations that are based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or that attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination in any form, and undertake to adopt immediate and positive measures designed to eradicate all incitement to, or acts of, such discrimination and, to that end, with due regard to the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rights expressly set forth in article 5 of the Convention, inter alia: (a) Shall declare as an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, and incitement to racial discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts against any race or group of persons of another colour or ethnic origin, and also the provision of any assistance to racist activities, including the financing thereof; (b) Shall declare illegal and prohibit organizations, and organized and all other propaganda activities, which promote and incite racial discrimination, and shall recognize participation in such organizations or activities as an offence punishable by law; (c) Shall not permit public authorities or public institutions, national or local, to promote or incite racial discrimination; * GE.13- 12168 Non-Member State of the Human Rights Council.