The United Nations Human Rights Council will maintain its fifty-seventh common session from 9 September to 11 October 2024 on the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The session will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 9 September beneath the presidency of Ambassador Omar Zniber (Morocco). The opening can be addressed by the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. The Council can be assembly in room XX of the Palais des Nations.
In the course of the session, the Council will maintain 30 interactive dialogues with Particular Procedures mandate holders, knowledgeable mechanisms and investigative mechanisms. It can maintain interactive dialogues with the Excessive Commissioner beneath agenda merchandise two on Nicaragua, beneath agenda merchandise 4 on Myanmar, and beneath agenda merchandise 10 on Ukraine, Honduras and Haiti.
The Council will maintain enhanced interactive dialogues on Afghanistan and Sudan beneath agenda merchandise two; with the Excessive Commissioner and the Worldwide Unbiased Knowledgeable Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Legislation Enforcement beneath agenda merchandise 9; and beneath agenda merchandise 10 on the nuclear legacy within the Marshall Islands, and with the Excessive Commissioner and the Group of Worldwide Specialists on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It can additionally maintain an interactive dialogue with the Advisory Committee.
The Council will maintain six panel discussions on selling and defending financial, social and cultural rights throughout the context of addressing inequalities; high quality schooling for peace and tolerance for each youngster; the proper to growth; the implementation of States’ obligations on the position of the household in supporting the human rights of its members; the rights of indigenous peoples; and the combination of a gender perspective all through the work of the Council. It can moreover hear displays of nation and thematic experiences from the Secretary-Normal, together with his report on reprisals towards those that search to cooperate or have cooperated with the United Nations.
Studies and oral updates can be introduced on the human rights conditions in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nicaragua beneath agenda merchandise two; Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Burundi, the Syrian Arab Republic, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation beneath agenda merchandise 4; and on South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic and Cambodia beneath agenda merchandise 10. On the finish of the session, the Council will appoint 4 mandate holders of Particular Procedures and knowledgeable mechanisms, and elect 4 members of its Advisory Committee.
The ultimate outcomes of the Common Periodic Assessment of 14 States can even be thought of, specifically these of New Zealand, Afghanistan, Chile, Cyprus, Viet Nam, Yemen, Vanuatu, North Macedonia, Comoros, Slovakia, Eritrea, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Cambodia.
An in depth agenda and additional data on the fifty-seventh session could be discovered on the session’s web page. Studies to be introduced can be found here. All conferences of this session are broadcast on UN Web TV.
First Week of the Session
The fifty-seventh common session will open on Monday, 9 September beneath the presidency of Ambassador Omar Zniber. Beneath agenda merchandise two on the annual report of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights and experiences of the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner and the Secretary-Normal, the Council can be addressed by the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who will current an replace to his annual report on the scenario of human rights internationally. This can be adopted by an interactive dialogue with the Unbiased Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar on the scenario of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and different minorities in Myanmar; an interactive dialogue on the report of the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner on selling reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka; an enhanced interactive dialogue on the scenario of human rights in Afghanistan primarily based on an oral replace by the Particular Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights in Afghanistan and a report by the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner; and an interactive dialogue with the Excessive Commissioner on his report on the human rights scenario in Nicaragua.
Tuesday, 10 September will begin with the conclusion of the Nicaraguan dialogue, adopted by an enhanced interactive dialogue on Sudan with the Unbiased Worldwide Reality-Discovering Mission for Sudan, which is able to proceed till the afternoon. This can be adopted by the presentation of an oral replace by the Group of Human Rights Specialists on Nicaragua, and the presentation of the Excessive Commissioner’s report on the implementation of decision 31/36. The Council will then start its common debate beneath agenda merchandise two, which is able to proceed on Wednesday, 11 September within the morning. The Council will begin the Wednesday afternoon assembly by opening its agenda merchandise three on the promotion and safety of all human rights, civil, political, financial, social and cultural rights and holding a panel dialogue on financial, social and cultural rights throughout the context of addressing inequalities. It can then conclude the final debate on agenda merchandise two, and start an interactive dialogue with the Particular Rapporteur on the promotion of reality, justice, reparation and ensures of non-recurrence, to be concluded on Thursday, 12 September.
Additionally on Thursday, the Council will maintain three separate interactive dialogues with the Particular Rapporteur on modern types of slavery, together with its causes and penalties; the Working Group on using mercenaries as a method of violating human rights and impeding the train of the proper of peoples to self-determination; and the Unbiased Knowledgeable on the enjoyment of all human rights by older individuals, the latter which is able to conclude on Friday, 13 September. Following this, the Council will maintain an interactive dialogue with the Particular Rapporteur on the detrimental impression of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights. It can then conclude its first week with an interactive dialogue on the Secretary-Normal’s analytical examine on local weather change.
Second Week of the Session
The second week of the session will start on Monday, 16 September with three separate interactive dialogues with the Particular Rapporteur on the human rights to secure consuming water and sanitation; the Unbiased Knowledgeable on the promotion of a democratic and equitable worldwide order; and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Tuesday, 17 September will see 4 separate interactive dialogues held with the Particular Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound administration and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes; the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Knowledgeable Mechanism on the Proper to Improvement; and the Particular Rapporteur on the proper to growth.
On Wednesday, 18 September, the day will start with a panel dialogue on high quality schooling for peace and tolerance for each youngster. Following this, the Council will conclude the interactive dialogue with the Particular Rapporteur on the proper to growth, adopted by an interactive dialogue with the Working Group on the rights of peasants. The dialogue with the Working Group will conclude on Wednesday afternoon, after the Council’s biennial panel on the proper growth.
This can be adopted by displays of thematic experiences ready by the United Nations Secretary-Normal and the Excessive Commissioner; briefings by the President of the Financial and Social Council and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Fee; and displays of experiences by the Working Group on the proper to growth, and by the open-ended intergovernmental Working Group to elaborate the content material of a world regulatory framework on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the actions of personal army and safety corporations. This can be adopted by the beginning of the final debate beneath agenda merchandise three, which is able to proceed via the morning of Thursday, 19 September.
After the final debate concludes on Thursday afternoon, the Council will open its agenda merchandise 4 on human rights conditions that require the Council’s consideration and start an interactive dialogue with the Unbiased Worldwide Reality-Discovering Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which is able to conclude on the morning of Friday, 20 September. Additionally on Friday, the Council will maintain three separate interactive dialogues with the Particular Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights in Burundi; the Unbiased Worldwide Fee of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic; and the Group of Unbiased Specialists on the State of affairs of Human Rights in Belarus which is able to current its first oral replace. The second week will finish with a closed assembly on the grievance process.
Third Week of the Session
The third week will kick off on Monday, 23 September with three separate interactive dialogues with the Unbiased Worldwide Fee of Inquiry on Ukraine; the Excessive Commissioner on the human rights scenario in Myanmar; and with the Particular Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Russian Federation. The Council will conclude the day by starting its common debate beneath agenda merchandise 4. The final debate will proceed into Tuesday, 24 September, adopted by interactive dialogues with the Knowledgeable Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and with the Particular Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.
The interactive dialogue with the Particular Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples will conclude on Wednesday, 25 September in between the morning panel dialogue on the implementation of States’ obligations on the position of the household in supporting the human rights of its members; and the afternoon annual panel dialogue on the rights of indigenous peoples on the theme of legal guidelines, insurance policies, judicial choices and different measures taken by States to attain the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Beneath agenda merchandise 5 on human rights our bodies and mechanisms, the Council will then maintain an interactive dialogue with the Advisory Committee, which is able to conclude on the morning of Thursday, 26 September.
Additionally on Thursday, the Council will maintain an interactive dialogue on the Secretary-Normal’s report on alleged reprisals towards those that search to cooperate or have cooperated with the United Nations. It can then maintain its common debate beneath agenda merchandise 5. The remainder of the third week can be devoted to the consideration of the outcomes of the Common Periodic Evaluations of New Zealand, Afghanistan, Chile, Cyprus, Viet Nam, Yemen, Vanuatu, North Macedonia, Comoros, Slovakia, Eritrea, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Cambodia. This can proceed into the fourth week, till Tuesday, 1 October.
Fourth Week of the Session
The fourth week will begin on Monday, 30 September with the Council’s annual dialogue on the combination of a gender perspective all through its work and that of its mechanisms, beneath the theme of enhancing gender integration in human rights investigations: a victim-centred perspective. The Council will then proceed with the issues of the outcomes of the Common Periodic Evaluations for the remainder of the day, ending the morning of Tuesday, 1 October. Following the ultimate assessment on Tuesday, the Council will maintain its common debate beneath agenda merchandise six on the Common Periodic Assessment. It can then maintain the final debate beneath agenda merchandise seven on the human rights scenario in Palestine and different occupied Arab territories, and begin the final debate beneath agenda merchandise eight on follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Motion, which is able to conclude on Wednesday, 2 October within the morning.
The Council will then open up its agenda merchandise 9 on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and associated types of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and programme of motion and maintain an interactive dialogue with the Working Group of Specialists on Individuals of African Descent, adopted by an enhanced interactive dialogue with the Excessive Commissioner and the Worldwide Unbiased Knowledgeable Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Legislation Enforcement. This can be adopted by an interactive dialogue with the Everlasting Discussion board on Individuals of African Descent.
On Thursday, 3 October, the Advert Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Requirements to the Worldwide Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Racial Discrimination will current its report, adopted by the presentation of the report of the Group of Unbiased Eminent Specialists, and of the Excessive Commissioner’s oral replace on sports activities and racism. These can be adopted by a common debate beneath agenda merchandise 9.
The Council will then open its agenda merchandise 10 on technical help and capability constructing and maintain an interactive dialogue on the oral replace of the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights on its technical help and capability constructing efforts for South Sudan, which is able to conclude on the morning of Friday, 4 October. Additionally on Friday, the Council will maintain an enhanced interactive dialogue on nuclear legacy within the Marshall Islands, adopted by separate interactive dialogues with the Unbiased Knowledgeable on the scenario of human rights in Somalia, and the Unbiased Knowledgeable on the scenario of human rights within the Central African Republic.
Fifth Week of the Session
The fifth and ultimate week of the Council will start on Monday, 7 October with three separate interactive dialogues with the Particular Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights in Cambodia; with the Excessive Commissioner on his oral replace on the findings within the report of the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights on the scenario of human rights in Ukraine; and with the Excessive Commissioner on his report on technical cooperation in Honduras, which is able to proceed into the morning of Tuesday, 8 October. Additionally on Tuesday, the Council will maintain an enhanced interactive dialogue with the Excessive Commissioner on his report on the scenario of human rights within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and with the Group of Worldwide Specialists on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Council will then maintain an interactive dialogue with the Excessive Commissioner on his interim report of the human rights scenario in Haiti, with the participation of the impartial human rights knowledgeable on Haiti.
Tuesday will conclude with displays of the Secretary-Normal and the Excessive Commissioner’s nation experiences and oral updates on Cambodia and Yemen and the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner’s report on the implementation of decision 51/33 on selling worldwide cooperation to assist nationwide mechanisms for implementation, reporting and follow-up, adopted by the final debate beneath agenda merchandise 10, which is able to conclude on Wednesday, 9 October within the morning. From Wednesday afternoon, via Thursday, 10 October and till Friday, 11 October, the Council will take motion on draft resolutions and choices. It can then elect Advisory Committee members for 4 vacant seats, appoint 4 mandate holders of Particular Procedures and knowledgeable mechanisms, undertake its session report advert referendum, and shut its fifty-seventh common session.
The Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental physique throughout the United Nations system, made up of 47 States, that are chargeable for strengthening the promotion and safety of human rights across the globe. The Council was created by the United Nations Normal Meeting on 15 March 2006 with the principle objective of addressing conditions of human rights violations and making suggestions on them.
The composition of the Human Rights Council at its fifty-fifth session is as follows: Albania (2026); Algeria (2025); Argentina (2024); Bangladesh (2025); Belgium (2025); Benin (2024); Brazil (2026); Bulgaria (2026); Burundi (2026); Cameroon (2024); Chile (2025); China (2026); Costa Rica (2025); Côte d’Ivoire (2026); Cuba (2026); Dominican Republic (2026); Eritrea (2024); Finland (2024); France (2026); Gambia (2024); Georgia (2025); Germany (2025); Ghana (2026); Honduras (2024); India (2024); Indonesia (2026); Japan (2026); Kazakhstan (2024); Kuwait (2026); Kyrgyzstan (2025); Lithuania (2024); Luxembourg (2024); Malawi (2026); Malaysia (2024); Maldives (2025); Montenegro (2024); Morocco (2025); Netherlands (Kingdom of the) (2026); Paraguay (2024); Qatar (2024); Romania (2025); Somalia (2024); South Africa (2025); Sudan (2025); United Arab Emirates (2024); United States of America (2024); and Viet Nam (2025).
The time period of membership of every State expires within the 12 months indicated in parentheses.
The President of the Human Rights Council in 2024 is Omar Zniber (Morocco). The 4 Vice-Presidents are Febrian Ruddyard (Indonesia); Darius Staniulis (Lithuania); Marcela Maria Arias Moncada (Honduras); and Heidi Schroderus-Fox (Finland). Mr. Staniulis can even function Rapporteur of the Geneva-based physique.
The dates and the programme of labor of the fifty-seventh session are topic to alter.
Info on the fifty-seventh session could be discovered here, together with the annotated agenda and the experiences to be introduced.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).