A/HRC/27/L.36 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 25 September 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-seventh session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Bahrain,* China, Cuba, Egypt, * Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/27/L.24 27/… Civil society space The eleventh preambular paragraph should read Deeply concerned that, in some instances, domestic legal and administrative provisions, such as national security and counter-terrorism legislation, and other measures, such as provisions on funding to civil society actors, hinder the work and endanger the safety of civil society in a manner contrary to international law, and recognizing the urgent need to prevent and stop the use of such provisions, and to review and, where necessary, amend any relevant provisions in order to ensure their compliance with relevant domestic laws consistent with the State’s international human rights law obligations and, as appropriate, international humanitarian law, * Non-member State of the Human Rights Council. GE.14-17198 (E) 