A/HRC/32/2: Report of the Human Rights Council on Its Thirty-Second Session
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A/HRC/32/2 Advance unedited version Distr.: General 14 November 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-second session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its thirty- second session Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mr. Bertrand de Crombrugghe (Belgium) A/HRC/32/2 Contents Chapter Page Part One: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session ....... 4 I. Resolutions ....................................................................................................................................... 4 II. Decisions .......................................................................................................................................... 5 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 .......................................................................... 9 F. Visits ............................................................................................................... 9 G. Selection and appointment of mandate holders .............................................. 9 H. Adoption of the report on 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 ........... 12 A. Update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights .......... 12 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ........................................................................................... 13 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ................................. 16 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ....................... 16 B. Panels .............................................................................................................. 27 C. General debate on agenda item 3 .................................................................... 34 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 36 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention .................................. 74 A. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ........................................................... 74 B. Interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea 74 C. Interactive dialogue with a special procedures mandate holder ...................... 75 D. Enhanced interactive dialogue on the human rights situation in South Sudan 76 E. General debate on agenda item 4 .................................................................... 76 F. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 78 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms .................................................................... 81 A. Panel discussion on the contribution of parliaments to the work of the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review ............................... 81 2 A/HRC/32/2 B. Forum on Business and Human Rights ........................................................... 82 C. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ................................ 82 D. General debate on agenda item 5 .................................................................... 82 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 83 VI. Universal periodic review ....................................................................................... 85 A. Consideration of the universal periodic review outcomes .............................. 85 B. General debate on agenda item 6 .................................................................... 161 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 162 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ................ 164 A. General debate on agenda item 7 .................................................................... 164 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action .............................................................................................. 165 A. General debate on agenda item 8 .................................................................... 165 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action .............................................................................................. 167 A. Interactive dialogue with a special procedures mandate holder ...................... 167 B. General debate on agenda item 9 .................................................................... 168 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ............................................................. 170 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ....................... 170 B. Interactive dialogue on cooperation and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights ............................................................................ 171 C. Interactive dialogue on technical cooperation and capacity-building for Burundi in the field of human rights ........................................................ 172 D. General debate on agenda item 10 .................................................................. 172 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 173 Annexes I. Attendance........................................................................................................................................ 175 II. Agenda ............................................................................................................................................. 182 III. Documents issued for the thirty-second session ............................................................................... 183 IV. Special procedures mandate holders appointed by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session ........................................................................................................................ 211 3 A/HRC/32/2 Part One Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session I. Resolutions Resolution Title Date of adoption 32 /1 Youth and human rights 30 June 2016 32/2 Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual 30 June 2016 orientation and gender identity 32/3 Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: 30 June 2016 protecting victims of trafficking and persons at risk of trafficking, especially women and children in conflict and post- conflict situations 32/4 Elimination of discrimination against women 30 June 2016 32/5 Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 30 June 2016 32/6 Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human 30 June 2016 rights 32/7 The right to a nationality: women's equal nationality rights in 30 June 2016 law and in practice 32/8 Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food 30 June 2016 32/9 Human rights and international solidarity 30 June 2016 32/10 Business and human rights: improving accountability and 30 June 2016 access to remedy 32/11 Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of 1 July 2016 internally displaced persons 32/12 Impact of arms transfers on human rights 1 July 2016 32/13 The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on 1 July 2016 the Internet 32/14 Protection of the human rights of migrants: strengthening the 1 July 2016 promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants including in large movements 32/15 Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to 1 July 2016 the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 32/16 Promoting the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest 1 July 2016 attainable standard of physical and mental health through enhancing capacity-building in public health 4 A/HRC/32/2 Resolution Title Date of adoption 32 /17 Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of 1 July 2016 discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls 32/18 Mental health and human rights 1 July 2016 32/19 Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: 1 July 2016 preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 32/20 Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by 1 July 2016