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UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/7/78 14 July 2008 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Seventh session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters 3 March-1 April 2008 REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ON ITS SEVENTH SESSION Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mr. Alejandro Artucio (Uruguay) GE.08-14662 (E) 220808 A/HRC/7/78 page 2 CONTENTS Chapter Page Part One: Resolutions adopted by the Council at its seventh session .......... 7 7/1. Human rights violations emanating from Israeli military attacks and incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly the recent ones in the occupied Gaza Strip .................................................... 7 7/2. Composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights .................................................... 8 7/3. Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights .. 11 7/4. Mandate of the independent expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights ........................................................................................... 13 7/5. Mandate of the independent expert on human rights and international solidarity ............................................................................. 15 7/6. Mandate of the independent expert on minority issues ............................ 18 7/7. Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism ................................................................................. 20 7/8. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders .................................................................................................. 23 7/9. Human rights of persons with disabilities ................................................ 25 7/10. Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality ............................. 28 7/11. The role of good governance in the promotion and protection of human rights ............................................................................................. 31 7/12. Enforced or involuntary disappearances .................................................. 33 7/13. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography .......................................................... 37 7/14. The right to food ....................................................................................... 39 7/15. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea .................................................................................................... 45 7/16. Situation of human rights in the Sudan .................................................... 47 7/17. Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination .............................. 49 A/HRC/7/78 page 3 CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Page 7/18. Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan ................................... 51 7/19. Combating defamation of religions ........................................................... 54 7/20. Technical cooperation and advisory services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ........................................................... 58 7/21. Mandate of 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 ................................................. 60 7/22. Human rights and access to safe drinking water and sanitation ............... 63 7/23. Human rights and climate change ............................................................. 65 7/24. Elimination of violence against women .................................................... 67 7/25. Prevention of genocide .............................................................................. 70 7/26. International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance ........................................................................... 74 7/27. Human rights and extreme poverty ........................................................... 75 7/28. Missing persons ......................................................................................... 76 7/29. Rights of the child ..................................................................................... 79 7/30. Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan ............................................. 91 7/31. Situation of human rights in Myanmar ..................................................... 94 7/32. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar ............................................................................................... 95 7/33. From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance ........... 97 7/34. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance ........... 98 7/35. Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights ................................... 101 7/36. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression .................................... 104 A/HRC/7/78 page 4 CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Page Part Two: Summary of proceedings ............................................................... 108 I. Organizational and procedural matters ............................................ 1 - 120 108 A. Opening and duration of the session ...................................... 1 - 4 108 B. Attendance ............................................................................. 5 108 C. High-level segment ................................................................ 6 - 12 108 D. General segment ..................................................................... 13 - 15 111 E. Agenda and programme of work of the session ..................... 16 - 17 112 F. Organization of work ............................................................. 18 - 27 112 G. Meetings and documentation ................................................. 28 - 36 114 H. Visits ...................................................................................... 37 - 38 114 I. Review, rationalization and improvement of mandates ......... 39 - 110 115 J. Selection and appointment of mandate-holders ..................... 111 - 112 123 K. Election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee .............................................................. 113 - 116 123 L. Adoption of the report of the session ..................................... 117 - 120 125 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 ............................................................... 121 - 137 126 A. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ................................................................... 121 - 124 126 B. Reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretary-General ............................................................. 125 - 129 126 C. Consideration and action on draft proposals .......................... 130 - 137 127 A/HRC/7/78 page 5 CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Page III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development .................................................................................... 138 - 313 129 A. Panels .................................................................................... 138 - 143 129 B. Interactive dialogue with special procedures ......................... 144 - 202 130 C. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders ................................. 203 - 207 139 D. Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide .......................................................... 208 - 211 139 E. Reports presented under agenda item 3 and general debate on that item ................................................................. 212 - 214 140 F. Consideration and action on draft proposals .......................... 215 - 313 141 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention .......... 314 - 353 155 A. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea .................................................................. 314 - 317 155 B. Situation of human rights in Myanmar .................................. 318 - 321 155 C. Situation of human rights in the Sudan .................................. 322 - 325 156 D. General debate on agenda item 4 ........................................... 326 - 327 157 E. Consideration and action on draft proposals .......................... 328 - 353 157 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms ............................................ 354 - 358 161 VI. Universal periodic review ............................................................... 359 162 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ...............................................................................