Human Rights Council
Ninth session

8 - 24 September 2008

at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Live Webcast

Wednesday, 17 September 2008
10:00 - 13:00 | 15:00 - 18:00

Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 1 minute

Item 4 - Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention (Continued)

Non-governmental Organizations(Continued)

Joint Statement: Society for Threatened Peoples, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM ASIA), Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network (AITPN), Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’amitié entre les Peoples (MRAP)

[English] 3 minutes

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

[English] 2 minutes

Mouvement contre  le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP)

[English][French] 3 minutes

Bahá’í International Community

[English] 3 minutes

International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH)

[English] 3 minutes

Fraciscans International

[English] 3 minutes

Human Rights Watch

[English] 3 minutes

International Educational Development (IED)

[English] 3 minutes

Colombian Commission of Jurists

[English][Spanish] 3 minutes

International Commission of Jurists

[English] 3 minutes

Joint Statement: Union of Arab Jurists, General Arab Women Federation

[English][Arabic] 3 minutes

Joint Statement: Asian Forum for Human Rights And Development (FORUM ASIA), People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy

[English] 3 minutes

Amnesty International

[English] 3 minutes

United Nations Watch

[English] 3 minutes

International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM)

[English] 3 minutes

International Islamic Federation of Students Organisations

[English] 3 minutes

Joint Statement: International Movement Against all Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM ASIA)

[English] 3 minutes

Mbororo Social And Cultural Development Association (MBOSCUDA)

[English] 4 minutes

World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

[English] 3 minutes

Liberation

[English] 3 minutes

Joint Statement: MINBYUN – Lawyers for a Democratic Society, Asian Legal Resource Centre

[English] 3 minutes

Joint Statement: Lutheran World Federation (LWF), International Movement Against all Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)

[English] 2 minutes

International Organisation For The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD)

[English] 2 minutes

Society Studies Centre

[English][Arabic] 3 minutes

Sudan Council for Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA)

[English] 3 minutes

Hawa Organisation for Women

[English][Arabic] 3 minutes

Al-Zubair Charity Organisation

[English][Arabic] 4 minutes

Child Development Foundation (CDF)

[English] 3 minutes

Sudanese Women General Union (SWGU)

[English] 4 minutes

African-American Society For Humanitarian Aid And Development (ASHAD)

[English] 3 minutes

North-South XXI

[English] 3 minutes

Arab Lawyers Union

[English] 3 minutes

European Union of Public Relations (EUPR)

[English] 2 minutes

Rights of reply

Sudan

[English] 5 minutes

Sri Lanka

[English] 4 minutes

Georgia

[English] 3 minutes

Myanmar

[English] 3 minutes

Ethiopia

[English] 2 minutes

India

[English] 2 minutes

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

[English] 2 minutes

Zimbabwe

[English] 3 minutes

Russian Federation

[English][Russian] 3 minutes

Pakistan

[English] 3 minutes

Colombia

[English][Spanish] 3 minutes

China

[English][Chinese] 2 minutes

Iran, Islamic Republic of

[English] 4 minutes

Morocco

[English][French] 3 minutes

Afghanistan

[English][French] 2 minutes

Iraq

[English][Arabic] 2 minutes

Netherlands

[English] 2 minutes

Japan

[English] 2 minutes

France (on belalf of the European Union)

[English][French] 1 minute

Georgia

[English] 2 minutes

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

[English] 1 minute

Uzbekistan

[English][Russian] 2 minutes

Russian Federation

[English][Russian] 1 minute

Item 4 - Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

Rights of reply (Continued)

Algeria

[English][French] 4 minutes

Japan

[English][French] 1 minute

Morocco

[English][French] 3 minutes

Algeria

[English][French] 3 minutes

Item 5 - Human rights bodies and mechanisms

General debate under Item 5

France (on belalf of the European Union)
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Mattéi

[English][French] 4 minutes

Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference)
Mr. Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

[English] 4 minutes

Egypt (on behalf of the African Group)
Mr. Amr Roshdy Hassan

[English] 2 minutes

Brazil
Mr. João Ernesto Christofolo

[English] 4 minutes

India
Ms. Rachita Bhandari

[English] 3 minutes

Japan
Mr. Osamu Yamanaka

[English] 2 minutes

Switzerland
Ms. Muriel Berset

[English][French] 4 minutes

Cuba
Ms. Mirta Granda Averhoff

[English][Spanish] 5 minutes

Republic of Korea
Mr. Ha Wie-young

[English] 3 minutes

Chile
Mr. Rodrigo Donoso

[English][Spanish] 2 minutes

Russian Federation
Mr. Alexey Goltyaev

[English][Russian] 4 minutes

Indonesia
Ms. Indah Nuria Savitri

[English] 4 minutes

Nigeria
Mr. Ositadinma Anaedu

[English] 2 minutes

Angola
Mr. Arcanjo Maria Do Nascimento

[English][French] 5 minutes

Bangladesh
Mr. Md Mustafizur Rahman

[English] 4 minutes

Azerbaijan
Ms. Konül Gasimova

[English] 1 minute

China
Mr. Qian Bo

[English][Chinese] 2 minutes

Malaysia
Mr. Ismail bin Mohamad Bkri

[English] 2 minutes

Lithuania
Mr. Jānis Mažeiks

[English] 4 minutes

Morocco
Mr. Mohammed Loulichki

[English][French] 4 minutes

Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Mr. Germán Mundaraín Hernández

[English][Spanish] 2 minutes

Non-governmental Organizations

Joint Statement: International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education (OIDEL), Soka Gakkai International (SGI), International Alliance of Women, International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), Interfaith International, World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), International Council of Women(ICW-CIF), International Federation of University Women, International Catholic Child Bureau(ICCB),  Association Points-Coeur, International Organisation for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD), Institute for Planetary Synthesis (IPS), Pax Romana (International Catholic Movement For Intellectual and Cultural Affairs and International Movement of Catholic Students)

[English] 3 minutes

Joint Statement: Indian Council Of South America (CISA), International Educational Development, Interfaith International

[English] 3 minutes

International Educational Development (IED)

[English] 3 minutes

International Movement Against all forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)

[English] 3 minutes

European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL)

[English][Spanish] 3 minutes

International Pen

[English][French] 2 minutes

European Union of Public Relations

[English] 3 minutes

International Institute for Peace (IIP)

[English] 3 minutes

International Service for Human Rights

[English] 3 minutes

World Peace Council

[English] 3 minutes

Universal Esperanto Association

[English][French] 3 minutes

Association of World Citizens

[English] 3 minutes

Item 6 - Universal Periodic Review

Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 2 minutes

General debate under Item 6

France (on behalf of the European Union)
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Mattéi

[English][French] 6 minutes

Egypt (on behalf of the African Group)
Mr. Amr Roshdy Hassan

[English] 2 minutes

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

[English] 2 minutes

Closing statement

Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
President of the Human Rights Council

[English] 7 minutes