United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/DEC/24/117* Distr.: General 4 October 2013 English Original: French Human Rights Council Twenty-fourth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council** 24/117 High-level panel on the identification of good practices in combating female genital mutilation At its 35th meeting, on 27 September 2013, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt the following text: The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Recalling the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 67/146 of 20 December 2012 on intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation, further to the decision of the African Union, taken in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a resolution banning female genital mutilation, Deeply concerned at the fact that, despite the intensification of efforts at the national, regional and international levels, and the emphasis placed on the abandonment of female genital mutilation, this practice persists in all regions of the world, * Reissued for technical reasons on 13 November 2013. ** The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twenty-fourth session (A/HRC/24/2), Part One. GE.13-18617 (E) 131113 131113