The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-third regular session from 19 June to 14 July 2023 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The session will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 19 June under the presidency of Ambassador Václav Bálek (Czechia). 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 28 interactive dialogues with Special Procedures mandate holders and investigative mechanisms. It will hold four interactive dialogues with the High Commissioner on his annual report, and on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Myanmar and Ukraine. It will also hold three enhanced interactive dialogues on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, on the situation of human rights in Sudan, and on technical cooperation and capacity-building in the Human Rights Council: taking stock of the past for a better discharge of this mission in the future.
In addition, the Council will hold panel discussions on human rights violations against Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar and on the role of media literacy in achieving freedom of opinion and expression, and hold its annual panel discussions on women’s rights and on the adverse impacts of climate change on human rights. It will also hear presentations of the Secretary-General’s interim report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the report of the Working Group on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, as well as oral updates on human rights situations in Sri Lanka, Nicaragua, the Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine and Georgia.
The final outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of 13 States will also be considered, namely those of the Czechia, Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala, Benin, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Pakistan, Zambia, Japan and Sri Lanka.
A detailed agenda and further information on the fifty-third session can be found on the session’s
