The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-seventh regular session from 9 September to 11 October 2024 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The session will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 9 September under the presidency of Ambassador Omar Zniber (Morocco). The opening will be addressed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. The Council will be meeting in room XX of the Palais des Nations.
During the session, the Council will hold 30 interactive dialogues with Special Procedures mandate holders, expert mechanisms and investigative mechanisms. It will hold interactive dialogues with the High Commissioner under agenda item two on Nicaragua, under agenda item four on Myanmar, and under agenda item 10 on Ukraine, Honduras and Haiti.
The Council will hold enhanced interactive dialogues on Afghanistan and Sudan under agenda item two; with the High Commissioner and the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement under agenda item nine; and under agenda item 10 on the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands, and with the High Commissioner and the Team of International Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It will also hold an interactive dialogue with the Advisory Committee.
The Council will hold six panel discussions on promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities; quality education for peace and tolerance for every child; the right to development; the implementation of States’ obligations on the role of the family in supporting the human rights of its members; the rights of indigenous peoples; and the integration of a gender perspective throughout the work of the Council. It will additionally hear presentations of country and thematic reports from the Secretary-General, including his report on reprisals against those who seek to cooperate or have cooperated with the United Nations.
Reports and oral updates will be presented on the human rights situations in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nicaragua under agenda item two; Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Burundi, the Syrian Arab Republic, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation under agenda item four; and on South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic and Cambodia under agenda item 10. At the end of the session, the Council will appoint four mandate holders of Special Procedures and expert mechanisms, and elect four members of its Advisory Committee.
The final outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of 14 States will also be considered, namely those of New Zealand, Afghanistan, Chile, Cyprus, Viet Nam, Yemen, Vanuatu, North Macedonia, Comoros, Slovakia, Eritrea, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Cambodia.
A detailed agenda and further information on the fifty-seventh session can be found on the session’s
