A/HRC/38/L.40 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 5 July 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-eighth session 18 June–6 July 2018 Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Egypt, South Africa: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC38/L.19/Rev.1 38/… The contribution of the Human Rights Council to the prevention of human rights violations After the sixth preambular paragraph, insert a new paragraph reading Reaffirming the existing procedures and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, particularly the universal periodic review, the special procedures, the complaints procedure, the Advisory Committee and the open-ended intergovernmental working groups, whose mandates are relevant to the promotion and protection of human rights and the prevention of human rights violations, GE.18-10972(E) 