A/HRC/22/L.38
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited
19 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. Also reaffirms that, as underlined in paragraph 13 of the outcome document
of the Durban Review Conference, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that
constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence should be prohibited by law,
that all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, or incitement to racial
discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts, shall be declared
offences punishable by law, in accordance with the international obligations of States, and
that these prohibitions are consistent with freedom of opinion and expression;
*
GE.13-12254
Non-Member State of the Human Rights Council.
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