Human Rights Council
Twelfth session

14 September - 2 October 2009

at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Live Webcast

Monday, 28 September 2009
10:00 - 13:00 | 15:00 - 18:00

Mr. Alex Van Meeuwen
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] [English / French] 5 minutes

Item 8. Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

 Annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective in the work of
the Human Rights Council

Topic: Integration of a gender perspective in the Universal Periodic Review.

Introductory statement by Mrs. Mona Rishmawi, Officer in Charge of OHCHR Research and Right to Development Division
[English] 11 minutes

Moderator: Mr. Alex Van Meeuwen, President of the Human Rights Council

Panellists:

• Ms. Leilani Farha, Executive Director of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
  [English] 8 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Cecilia Rachel Quisumbing, Member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
  [English] 10 minutes
  
  
• Mr. Jeremy Sarkin, Member of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntaruy Disapearences
  [English] 10 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Barbara Evelyn Bailey, Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
  (Presented by Ms. Maria Virginia Bras Gomes on behalf of Ms. Barbara Evelyn Bailey)
  [English] 8 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah, Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  [English] [French] 5 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Maria Virginia Bras Gomes, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  [English] 8 minutes

Discussion

Chile
Ms. Carmen Hetz

[English][Spanish] 3 minutes

Brazil
Mr. Murilo Vieira Komniski

[English] 3 minutes

Sweden (on behalf of the European Union)
Ms. Lina Van Der Weyden

[English] 3 minutes

Finland
Mr. Pekka Metso

[English] 2 minutes

Russian Federation
Ms. Marina Viktorova

[English] [Russian] 2 minutes

France
Mr. Emmanuel Pineda

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Ireland
Ms. Amy Mcardle

[English] 1 minute

Slovenia
Ms. Anja Marija Ciraj

[English] 3 minutes

Indonesia
Mr. Desra Percaya

[English] 3 minutes

Azerbaijan
Ms. Samira Safarova

[English] 2 minutes

Cuba
Ms. Maria del Carmen Herrera Caseiro

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ms. Eilidh Kennedy

[English] 2 minutes

Norway
Ms. Gry Larsen

[English] 3 minutes

Canada (on Behalf of CANZ)
Mr. Jeffrey Heaton

[English] [English / French] 2 minutes

Turkey
Ms. Elman Pirar

[English] [French] 2 minutes

National Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations

Conseil Consultatif des Droits de L'Homme-Maroc

[English] [French] 2 minutes

Joint statement: Women’s International League For Peace And Freedom (WILPF)

[English] 2 minutes

Human Rights Watch

[English] 2 minutes

• Ms. Leilani Farha, Executive Director of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
  [English] 4 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Cecilia Rachel Quisumbing, Member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
  [English] 3 minutes
  
  
• Mr. Jeremy Sarkin, Member of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntaruy Disapearences
  [English] 3 minutes

Discussion Continued (continued)

Nicaragua
Mr. Néstor Cruz Toruño

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

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

[English] 3 minutes

Algeria
Ms. Selma Malika Hendel

[English] [French] 3 minutes

China
Ms. Li Yi

[English] [Chinese] 2 minutes

Japan
Mr. Manabu Murakami

[English] 2 minutes

Belgium
Mr. Xavier Baert

[English] [French] 2 minutes

Netherlands
Ms. Nynke B. Wijmenga

[English] 2 minutes

Bangladesh
Mr. Mustafizur Rahman

[English] 3 minutes

Morocco
Mr. Mohamed Achgalou

[English] [French] 2 Minutes

Republic of Korea
Mr. Kim Pil-Woo

[English] 3 minutes

Mexico
Mr. Salvador Tinajero Esquivel

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

United States of America
Ms. Tara Foley

[English] 2 minutes

Switzerland
Ms. Damaris Carnal

[English] [French] 2 minutes

National Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations

Joint statement: Inter-African Committee on Practices Affecting the Health of Women, Women Federation for World Peace International

[English] 2 minutes

International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH)

[English] [French] 2 minutes

International Federation of University Women (IFUW)

[English] 2 minutes

• Ms. Leilani Farha, Executive Director of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
  [English] 2 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Cecilia Rachel Quisumbing, Member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
  [English] 2 minutes
  
  
• Mr. Jeremy Sarkin, Member of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntaruy Disapearences
  [English] 3 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah, Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  [English] [French] 3 minutes
  
  
• Ms. Maria Virginia Bras Gomes, Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  [English] 4 minutes

Closing statement by Mr. Andrej Logar, Vice-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)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
Prof. S. James Anaya

A/HRC/12/34, A/HRC/12/34/Add.1, A/HRC/12/34/Add.2, A/HRC/12/34/Add.3,
A/HRC/12/34/Add.4, A/HRC/12/34/Add.5, A/HRC/12/34/Add.6,
A/HRC/12/34/Add.7, A/HRC/12/34/Add.8, A/HRC/12/34/Add.9,
A/HRC/12/34/Add.10, A/HRC/12/NI/8

[English] 15 minutes

Bolivia (Plurinational State of) as a concerned country
Ms. Angélica Navarro Llanos

[English] [Spanish] 5 minutes

Botswana as a concerned country
Ms. Mosadi K. Ramotshabi

[English] 4 minutes

Brazil as a concerned country
Mr. Murilo Vieira Komniski

[English] 6 minutes

Chile as a concerned country
Mr. Carlos Portales

[English] [Spanish] 8 minutes

Nepal as a concerned country
Mr. Dinesh Bhattarai

[English] 6 minutes

Panama as a concerned country
Mr. Jose Isaac Acosta

[English] [Spanish] 7 minutes

Peru as a concerned country
Mr. José Eduardo Ponce Vivanco

[English] [Spanish] 10 minutes

Interactive dialogue

Sweden (on behalf of the European Union)
Ms. Anna Uggla

[English] 4 minutes

Australia
Ms. Caroline Millar

[English] 3 minutes

Colombia
Mr. Angelino Garzón

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

Norway
Mr. Bjorn Olav Megard

[English] 3 minutes

New Zealand
Ms. Wendy Hinton

[English] 2 minutes

Ecuador
Ms. Maria Del Carmen Vivar

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

Denmark
Mr. Peter Hertel Rasmussen

[English] 3 minutes

Mexico
Mr. Juan José Ignacio Gómez Camacho

[English] [Spanish] 4 minutes

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Mr. Germán Mundaraín Hernández

[English] [Spanish] 2 minutes

Canada
Ms. Manon Boisclair

[English] [French / English] 2 minutes

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
Ms. Tonya Gonella Frichner

[English] 4 minutes

United States of America
Ms. Courtney Musser

[English] 3 minutes

Finland
Mr. Pekka Metso

[English] 2 minutes

National Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations

Canadian Human Rights Commission

[English] 2 minutes

Commission on Human Rights of the Phillippines

[English] 2 minutes

Fédération internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)

[English] [Spanish] 2 minutes

Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ)

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

Conectas Direitos Humanos

[English] 2 minutes

Permanent Assembly for Human Rights

[English] [Spanish] 2 minutes

Concluding Remarks

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
Prof. S. James Anaya

[English] 7 minutes

Item 5 - Human rights bodies and mechanisms

Expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples
A/HRC/12/32, A/HRC/12/33, A/HRC/12/NGO/34
Ms. Jannie Lasimbang, Chairperson of the Expert Mechanism

[English] 11 minutes

General debate

Sweden (on behalf of the European Union)
Ms. Lina Van Der Weyden

[English] 4 minutes

Norway
Ms. Bente Angell-Hansen

[English] 3 minutes

Morocco
Mr. Omar Hilale

[English] [French] 6 minutes

Brazil
Ms. Maria Nazareth Farani Azevêdo

[English] 5 minutes

Russian Federation
Mr. Sergey Kondratiev

[English] [Russian] 3 minutes

Senegal
Mr. Cheikh Tidiane Thiam

[English] [French] 3 minutes

Japan
Mr. Akio Isomata

[English] 2 minutes

United States of America
Ms. Courtney Musser

[English] 1 minute

Latvia (on behalf of 54 countries)
Mr. Valerijs Romanovskis

[English] 3 minutes

Australia
Ms. Miranda Brown

[English] 3 minutes

Denmark
Mr. Lars Volck Madsen

[English] 3 minutes

Finland
Mr. Pekka Metso

[English] 2 minutes

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Mr. Edgardo Toro

[English] [Spanish] 1 minute

National Human Rights Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations

Conseil Consultatif des Droits de L'Homme-Maroc

[English] [French] 2 minutes

Commission on Human Rights of the Phillippines

[English] 2 minutes

Indigenous World Association

[English] 4 minutes

Saami Council

[English] 3 minutes

International Organization of Indigenous Resource Development

[English] 2 minutes