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Report of the Human Rights Council on Its 37Th Session A/HRC/37/2 Advance unedited version Distr.: General 14 June 2018 Original: English Proceedings up to 6.30 p.m. on 23 March 2016 Human Rights Council Thirty-seventh session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its thirty- seventh session Vice-President and Rapporteur: Ms. Marta Maurás (Chile) A/HRC/37/2 Contents Chapter Page Part One: Resolutions, decisions and President’s statement adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty- seventh session ......................................................................................................................................... 5 I. Resolutions ....................................................................................................................................... 5 II. Decisions ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Part Two: Summary of proceedings .................................................................................................................. 8 I. Organizational and procedural matters ............................................................................................. 8 A. Opening and duration of the session ........................................................................................ 8 B. Attendance ............................................................................................................................... 8 C. High-level segment .................................................................................................................. 8 D. General segment ...................................................................................................................... 12 E. Agenda and programme of work ............................................................................................. 12 F. Organization of work ............................................................................................................... 12 G. Meetings and documentation ................................................................................................... 14 H. Visits ........................................................................................................................................ 14 I. Urgent debate on the situation of Eastern Ghouta in the Syrian Arab Republic ...................... 14 J. Selection and appointment of mandate holders ....................................................................... 15 K. Consideration of and action on draft proposals ....................................................................... 15 L. Adoption of the report of the session ....................................................................................... 19 II. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ................................................................................................ 20 A. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. ........................ 20 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General .......................... 21 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ......................................................................................................................... 24 A. Panels ....................................................................................................................................... 24 B. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ................................................ 28 C. Interactive dialogue with Special Representatives of the Secretary-General ........................... 38 D. Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights ................................................................................. 40 E. General debate on agenda item 3 ............................................................................................. 40 F. Consideration of and action on draft proposals ....................................................................... 42 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention ........................................................... 60 A. Panels ....................................................................................................................................... 60 B. Enhanced interactive dialogue on the human rights situation in Eritrea .................................. 61 C. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic .................................................................................................................................. 61 2 A/HRC/37/2 D. Interactive dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan ........................ 62 E. Interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi ........................................... 62 F. Oral update by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar ................. 63 G. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ............................................... 64 H. Discussion of the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran ....................................................................................................................... 65 I. General debate on agenda item 4 ............................................................................................. 66 J. Consideration of and action on draft proposals ....................................................................... 68 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms ............................................................................................. 73 A. Forum on minority issues ........................................................................................................ 73 B. Social Forum ............................................................................................................................ 73 C. Special Procedures ................................................................................................................... 73 D. General debate on agenda item 5 ............................................................................................. 73 VI. Universal periodic review ................................................................................................................ 75 A. Consideration of the universal periodic review outcomes ....................................................... 75 B. General debate on agenda item 6 ............................................................................................. 145 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals ....................................................................... 146 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ......................................... 148 A. Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories since 1967 ................................................................................................................ 148 B. Reports of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ............................................... 148 C. General debate on agenda item 7 ............................................................................................. 149 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals ....................................................................... 150 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ................ 154 A. General debate on agenda item 8 ............................................................................................. 154 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ................................... 156 A. Debate on promoting tolerance, inclusion, unity and respect for diversity in the context of combating racial discrimination ............................................................................................................... 156 B. General debate on agenda item 9 ............................................................................................. 157 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals ....................................................................... 158 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ...................................................................................... 160 A. High-level interactive dialogue on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic 160 B. Enhanced interactive dialogue on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...................................................................................................................................... 160 C. Interactive dialogue on the situation of human rights in Libya ................................................ 161 D. Interactive dialogue on cooperation and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights ... 162 E. Interactive
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