Human Rights Council
Eighth session

2 - 18 June 2008

at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Live Webcast

Monday, 2 June 2008
10:30 - 13:00 | 15:00 - 18:00

Mr. Doru Costea
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 3 minutes

H.E. Dr. Danilo Türc
President of the Republic of Slovenia

[English] 24 minutes

Item 1 - Organizational and procedural matters

Item 2 - Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General.

Update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour

[English] [English / French] 21 minutes

Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Mr. Masood Khan

[English] 4 minutes

Slovenia on behalf of the European Union
Ms. Eva Tomič

[English] 6 minutes

Egypt on behalf of the African Group
Mr. Sameh Shoukry

[English] 6 minutes

India
Mr. Swashpawan Singh

[English] 4 minutes

Italy
Mr. Giovanni Caracciolo di Vietri

[English] 5 minutes

Senegal
Mr Babacar Carlos Mbaye

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Canada
Mr. Marius Grinius

[English] 3 minutes

Indonesia
Mr. I. Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja

[English] 4 minutes

Mexico
Ms. Mabel Gómez Oliver

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

France
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Mattéi

[English] [French] 5 minutes

Japan
Mr. Makio Miyagawa

[English] 3 minutes

Russian Federation
Mr. Valery Loshchinin

[English] [Russian] 4 minutes

Switzerland
Mr. Blaise Godet

[English] [French] 4 minutes

China
Mr. Li Baodong

[English] [Chinese] 5 minutes

Item 2 - Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General (Continued)

Republic of Korea
Mr. Lee Sung-joo

[English] 5 minutes

Sri Lanka
Mr. Rajiva Wijesinha

[English] 5 minutes

Malaysia
Mr. Karim Mohd Yusof

[English] 5 minutes

Philippines
Ms. Erlinda F. Basilio

[English] 2 minutes

Nigeria
Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi

[English] 4 minutes

Bangladesh
Mr. Md Mustafizur Rahman

[English] 4 minutes

South Africa
Ms. Glaudine J. Mtshali

[English] 5 minutes

Netherlands
Mr. Boudewijn J. Van Eenennaamm

[English] 2 minutes

Brazil
Mr. Marcia Maria Adorno C. Ramos

[English] 5 minutes

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mr. Peter Gooderham

[English] 3 minutes

Burkina Faso
Mr. Prosper Vokouma

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Nepal
Mr. Dinesh Bhattarai

[English] 3 minutes

Algeria
Mr. Idriss Jazairy

[English] 3 minutes

Chile
Mr. Carlos Portales

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

Tunisia
Mr. Ali Cherif

[English] [French] 2 minutes

Ireland
Mr. Mícheál Tierney

[English] [French] 2 minutes

Morocco
Mr. Mohammed Loulichki

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Norway
Ms. Hilde Skorpen

[English] 2 minutes

Argentina
Mr. Alberto J. Dumont

[English] [Spanish] 2 minutes

Uzbekistan
Mr. Badriddin Obidov

[English] [Russian] 4 minutes

Thailand
Ms. Lada Phumas

[English] 3 minutes

Maldives
Mr. Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed

[English] 2 minutes

New Zealand
Mr. Don Mackay

[English] 3 minutes

Ecuador
Mr. Juan Holguin

[English] [Spanish] 2 minutes

International Organization of la Francophonie
Mr. Libère Bararunyeretse

[English] [French] 4 minutes

Non-governemental Organizations

International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) also on behalf of Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD), Amnesty International (AI), Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), Baha'i International Community, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ), Conectas Direitos Humanos, Franciscans International (FI), Friends World Committee For Consultation (QUAKERS) (FWCC), Human Rights Watch (HRW), International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights And Democracy), International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH), Latin American Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights (CLADEM), Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Pax Romana (International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs and International Movement of Catholic Students) (Joint statement)

[English] 6 minutes

Comision Juridica para el autodesarollo de los pueblos originarios andinos (CAPAJ)

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Indian Council of South America (CISA)

[English] 2 minutes

North South XXI

[English] 2 minutes

Item 3 - Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons
Mr. Walter Kälin

A/HRC/8/6 and A/HRC/8/6/Add.1, A/HRC/8/6/Add.2, A/HRC/8/6/Add.3, A/HRC/8/6/Add.4 , A/HRC/8/NGO/21, A/HRC/8/NGO/29

[English][English / French] 14 minutes

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Mr. Philip Alston

A/HRC/8/3, A/HRC/8/3/Corr.1, A/HRC/8/3/Add.1, A/HRC/8/3/Add.2, A/HRC/8/3/Add.3, A/HRC/8/3/Add.4, A/HRC/8/3/Add.5, A/HRC/8/3/Add.6, A/HRC/8/NGO/7, A/HRC/8/NGO/12, A/HRC/8/NGO/16, A/HRC/8/NGO/27, A/HRC/8/NGO/34, A/HRC/8/NGO/36

[English] 16 minutes

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Mr. Leandro Despouy

A/HRC/8/4, A/HRC/8/4/Add.1, A/HRC/8/Add.2, A/HRC/8/NGO/41

[English][Spanish] 14 minutes

Interactive dialogue

Concerned countries

Azerbaidjan
Mr. Habib Mikayilli

[English] 4 minutes

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mr. Sébastien Mutomb Mujing

[English][French] 9 minutes

(Interactive dialogue to be continued on Tuesday, 3 June 2008 at 10:00am)