Human Rights Council to hold 24th regular session – General debate on human rights situation in Palestine and OATs – Press release (excerpts)

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS TWENTY-FOURTH REGULAR SESSION FROM 9 TO 27 SEPTEMBER

Commission of Inquiry on Syria to Present Latest Report, Commission of Inquiry on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to Present Oral Update

3 September 2013

The Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-fourth regular session from 9 to 27 September 2013 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, during which it will hear presentations from 19 independent human rights experts and bodies and hold panels and discussions on the human rights of children whose parents have been given the death penalty or executed; gender integration; and human rights and indigenous peoples. The 47-member body will also hear the presentation of the latest report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and a preliminary oral update from the Commission of Inquiry on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

On the first day of the session, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will update the Council on the activities of her Office, followed by a general debate on the annual report of the High Commissioner. 

During the first week, the Council will hear the presentation of reports and hold interactive dialogues with the following independent human rights experts and bodies: the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict; the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination; the International Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order; the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes; the Special Rapporteur on the human right to drinking safe drinking water and sanitation; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence; the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery; and the Working Group on the right to development.

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Also during the last week, the Council will hold general debates on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories; on the follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; and on technical assistance and capacity-building.

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The twenty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council will be held in Room XX of the Palais des Nations and will start at 10 a.m. on Monday, 9 September.



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HRC13/094E