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Report of the Human Rights Council on Its Thirtieth Session United Nations A/HRC/30/2 General Assembly Distr.: General 30 September 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirtieth session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its thirtieth session Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mothusi Bruce Rabasha Palai (Botswana) GE.19-16769(E) A/HRC/30/2 Contents Page Part One Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirtieth session ..................................................................................................................... 4 I. Resolutions .................................................................................................................................... 4 II. Decisions ....................................................................................................................................... 5 III. President’s statements ................................................................................................................... 6 Part Two Summary of proceedings ............................................................................................................... 7 I. Organizational and procedural matters .......................................................................................... 7 A. Opening and duration of the session ..................................................................................... 7 B. Attendance ............................................................................................................................ 7 C. Agenda and programme of work .......................................................................................... 7 D. Organization of work ............................................................................................................ 7 E. Meetings and documentation ................................................................................................ 8 F. Visits ..................................................................................................................................... 8 G. Election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee ........................... 9 H. Selection and appointment of mandate holders .................................................................... 9 I. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 9 J. Adoption of the report of the session .................................................................................... 10 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 ................................. 11 A. Update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ................................ 11 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ....................... 12 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 13 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ....................................................... 15 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedure mandate holders .............................................. 15 B. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 22 C. General debate on agenda item 3 .......................................................................................... 24 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 26 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention ........................................................ 38 A. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ........................................................................................................... 38 B. Panel discussion on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the issue of international abductions, enforced disappearances and related matters ....................................................................................................................... 38 C. General debate on agenda item 4 .......................................................................................... 39 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 41 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms .......................................................................................... 43 A. Complaint procedure ............................................................................................................ 43 B. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ...................................................... 43 2 A/HRC/30/2 C. Interactive dialogue with the Advisory Committee .............................................................. 43 D. Open-ended intergovernmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas ...................... 44 E. General debate on agenda item 5 .......................................................................................... 44 F. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 45 VI. Universal periodic review ............................................................................................................. 48 A. Consideration of universal periodic review outcomes .......................................................... 48 B. General debate on agenda item 6 .......................................................................................... 121 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 122 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ...................................... 124 A. General debate on agenda item 7 .......................................................................................... 124 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ............. 125 A. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 125 B. General debate on agenda item 8 .......................................................................................... 126 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action .................................. 128 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedure mandate holders .............................................. 128 B. General debate on agenda item 9 .......................................................................................... 128 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 129 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ................................................................................... 131 A. Interactive dialogue on cooperation and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights ......................................................................................................................... 131 B. Interactive dialogue on technical assistance and capacity-building for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ............................................................................. 131 C. Interactive dialogue on technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya ........................................................................................................... 132 D. Interactive dialogue with special procedure mandate holders .............................................. 133 E. General debate on agenda item 10 ........................................................................................ 135 F. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 136 Annexes I. Attendance..................................................................................................................................... 141 II. Agenda .......................................................................................................................................... 147 III. Documents issued for the thirtieth session .................................................................................... 148 IV. Advisory Committee members elected by the Human Rights Council at its thirtieth session and the date of expiry of their term of membership ...................................................................... 174 V. Special procedure mandate holders appointed by the Human Rights Council at its thirtieth session ......................................................................................................................... 175 3 A/HRC/30/2 Part One Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirtieth session I. Resolutions Resolution Title Date of adoption 30/1
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