Human Rights Council
Eighth session

2 - 18 June 2008

at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Live Webcast

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
10:00 - 13:00 | 15:00 - 18:00

Mr. Doru Costea
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 3 minutes

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

Interactive dialogue

Concerned countries

Sri Lanka
Mr. Rajiva Wijesinha

[English] 5 minutes

Philippines
Ms. Erlinda F. Basilio

[English] 7 minutes

Brazil
Ms. Marcia Maria Adorno C. Ramos

[English] 5 minutes

Afghanistan
Mr. Nanguyalai Tarzi

[English] [French] 5 minutes

Other countries

Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Mr. Marghoob Saleem Butt

[English] 3 minutes

Mexico
Mr. José Guevara

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Indonesia
Mr. I. Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja

[English] 5 minutes

Qatar
Mr. Faisal Abdulla Al-Henzab

[English] [Arabic] 3 minutes

Bangladesh
Mr. Md Mustafizur Rahman

[English] 3 minutes

Pakistan
Mr. Marghoob Saleem Butt

[English] 3 minutes

India
Mr. Rajiv Kumar Chander

[English] 3 minutes

Slovenia on behalf of the European Union
Ms. Eva Tomič

[English] 5 minutes

Egypt
Mr. Omar Shalaby

[English] 5 minutes

Russian Federation
Ms. Marina Viktorova

[English][Russian] 5 minutes

Netherlands
Mr. Robert-Jan Sieben

[English] 3 minutes

Canada
Ms. Sue Butchart

[English] 4 minutes

China
Mr. Qian Bo

[English][Chinese] 3 minutes

Austria
Mr. Michael Schoiswohl

[English] 2 minutes

Argentina
Mr. Sebastián Rosales

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Colombia
Ms. Alma Viviana Pérez Gómez

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

Chile
Mr. Carlos Portales

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Sudan
Mr. Omer Dahab Fadol Mohamed

[English] 4 minutes

Singapore
Mr. Tan York Chor

[English] 3 minutes

New Zealand in a Joint Statement
Mr. Michael McBryde

[English] 2 minutes

Norway
Ms. Beate Stirø

[English] 2 minutes

Switzerland
Ms. Alexandra Ruppen

[English] [French] 2 minutes

Liechtenstein
Ms. Isabel Frommelt

[English] 2 minute

Sri Lanka
Mr. Rajiva Wijesinha

[English] 5 minutes

Uruguay
Ms. María Lourdes Boné

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Belgium
Mr. Bart Ouvry

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Italy
Mr. Robert Nocella

[English] 3 minutes

Hungary
Ms. Orsolya Tóth

[English] 2 minutes

Iraq
Mr. Omer Berzinji

[English][English / Arabic] 4 minutes

Japan
Mr. Akio Isomata

[English] 3 minutes

Ireland
Mr. Mícheál Tierney

[English] 2 minutes

Armenia
Mr. Zohrab Mnatsakanian

[English] 3 minutes

Cuba
Mr. Yuri Gala

[English][Spanish] 5 minutes

Maldives
Mr. Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed

[English] 2 minute

Nigeria
Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi

[English] 5 minutes

Brazil
Ms. Marcia Maria Adorno C. Ramos

[English] 1 minute

Philippines
Mr. Ricardo R. Blancaflor

[English] 2 minute

Point of order

International Organization of la Francophonie
Mr. Libère Bararunyeretse

[English][French] 2 minutes

Algeria
Mr. Idriss Jazairy

[English][French] 3 minutes

Ecuador
Mr. Juan Holguín

[English][Spanish] 3 minutes

Non-governemental Organizations

Commission of the Human Rights in the Philippines

[English] 3 minutes

Asian Legal Ressources Center

[English] 3 minutes

Pax Romana

[English] 3 minutes

North South XXI

[English] 3 minutes

Interfaith International

[English] 3 minutes

Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ)

[English][Spanish] 3 minutes

Society for Threatened Peoples

[English] 3 minutes

Amnesty International

[English] 3 minutes

France Libertés: Fondation Danielle Mitterrand

[English] 3 minutes

Mr. Doru Costea
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 1 minute

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

Interactive dialogue

Non-governemental Organizations

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

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches (CCIA/WCC) also on behalf of Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) (Joint statement)

[English] 3 minutes

Concluding remarks by mandate-holders

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

[English] 5 minutes

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

[English] [Spanish] 5 minutes

Mr. Doru Costea
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 1 minute

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Mr. Vernor Muñoz Villalobos

A/HRC/8/10 and A/HRC/8/10/Add.1, A/HRC/8/10/Add.2, A/HRC/8/10/Add.4, A/HRC/8/NGO/13, A/HRC/8/NGO/33

[English] [Spanish] 16 minutes

Report of the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty
Ms. Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona

A/HRC/7/15

[English] [Spanish] 10 minutes

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Mr. John Ruggie

A/HRC/8/5 and A/HRC/8/5/Add.1, A/HRC/8/5/Add.2, A/HRC/8/16, A/HRC/8/NGO/1, A/HRC/8/NGO/5, A/HRC/8/NGO/19, A/HRC/8/NGO/45

[English] 12 minutes

Concerned countries

Other countries

Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Mr. Syed Ali Asad Gillani

[English] 4 minutes

China
Mr. Ke Yousheng

[English] [Chinese] 3 minutes

Egypt
Mr. Omar Shalaby

[English] 3 minutes

Italy
Ms. Nicoletta Piccirillo

[English] 2 minutes

Qatar
Mr. Faisal Abdulla Al-Henzab

[English] [Arabic] 3 minutes

Algeria
Mr. Idriss Jazaïry

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Malaysia
Mr.

[English] 3 minutes

Argentina
Mr. Sebastián Rosales

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Republic of Korea
Mr. Kim Pil-Woo

[English] 3minutes

Portugal
Ms. Raquel Tavares

[English] 3 minutes

Thailand
Ms. Lada Phumas

[English] 3 minutes

Peru
Mr. Alejandro Neyra Sánchez

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Bangladesh
Mr. Md Mustafizur Rahman

[English] 4 minutes

Chile
Mr. Carlos Portales

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Cuba
Mr. Rafael García Collada

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ms. Kate Jones

[English] 2 minutes

Venezuela
Mr. Enzo Bitetto Gavilanes

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Nigeria
Mr. Ositadinma Anaedu

[English] 2 minutes

Azerbaijan

[English] 3 minutes

Sri Lanka

[English] 3 minutes

Iraq

[English] [Arabic] 1 minute

Colombia

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Thailand

[English] 2 minutes

Mr. Doru Costea
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 3 minutes