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journalists and other media workers, Internet users and human rights defenders, in this
regard;
19.
Urges States to ensure accountability for human rights violations and abuses
through judicial or other national mechanisms, based on law in conformity with their
international human rights obligations and commitments, and to provide victims with
access to a remedy and redress, including in the context of peaceful protests;
20.
Requests the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful
assembly and of association and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions to prepare, from within existing resources, a compilation of practical
recommendations for the proper management of assemblies based on best practices and
lessons learned and, in the preparation of the compilation, to seek the views of States,
relevant United Nations agencies, in particular the Office of the High Commissioner and
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, intergovernmental organizations, other
relevant special procedures mandate holders, national human rights institutions, nongovernmental organizations and other relevant stakeholders, such as practitioners, and to
submit the compilation to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-first session;
21.
Decides to continue its consideration of this topic, as well as next steps, at its
thirty-first session under agenda item 3.
56th meeting
28 March 2014
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 31 to 9, with 7 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Argentina, Austria, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Costa
Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Gabon, Germany,
Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Mexico, Montenegro,
Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Romania, Sierra Leone, the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, United States of America
Against:
China, Cuba, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Russian Federation, South Africa,
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam
Abstaining:
Algeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates]
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