A/HRC/23/L.33
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
11 June 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-third session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Algeria*, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)*, China*, Cuba*, Ecuador, Egypt*, El
Salvador*, Pakistan, Russian Federation*, Saudi Arabia*, Venezuela (Bolivarian
Republic of): draft amendment
23/…Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/23/L.28
The sixth preambular paragraph should read
Recognizing that rape or any other form of sexual violence is unlawful in all
circumstances and in all places, regardless of the sex, age and ethnicity of the victim,
including in detention or in jail, whether or not committed by State or non-State actors in
the course of achieving political or military objectives, whether or not in the course of an
international or non-international armed conflict, or in areas under foreign occupation,
* Non-member State of the Human Rights Council.
GE.13-14692
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