UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/9/28 2 December 2008 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Ninth session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters 8-24 September 2008 REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ON ITS NINTH SESSION Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mr. Elchin Amirbayov (Azerbaijan) GE.08-17091 (E) 260109 A/HRC/9/28 page 2 CONTENTS Page Part One: Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Council at its ninth session .................................................................... 7 Chapter I. Resolutions adopted by the Council at its ninth session ................................... 7 9/1. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights ................................................... 7 9/2. Human rights and international solidarity ................................................... 9 9/3. The right to development ............................................................................ 12 9/4. Human rights and unilateral coercive measures ......................................... 14 9/5. Human rights of migrants ........................................................................... 17 9/6. Follow-up to the seventh special session of the Human Rights Council on the negative impact of the worsening of the world food crisis on the realization of the right to food for all .......................................................... 22 9/7. Human rights and indigenous peoples ........................................................ 24 9/8. Effective implementation of international human rights instruments ......... 25 9/9. Protection of the human rights of civilians in armed conflict ..................... 30 9/10. Human rights and transitional justice .......................................................... 32 9/11. Right to the truth ......................................................................................... 35 9/12. Human rights voluntary goals ..................................................................... 38 9/13. Draft United Nations guidelines for the appropriate use and conditions of alternative care for children .................................................. 40 9/14. Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent ........................................................................................... 41 9/15. Advisory services and technical assistance for Cambodia .......................... 44 9/16. Advisory services and technical assistance for Liberia .............................. 49 A/HRC/9/28 page 3 CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Page I. (continued) 9/17. Situation of human rights in the Sudan ........................................................ 50 9/18. Follow-up to resolution S-3/1: human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the shelling of Beit Hanoun ................................................... 52 9/19. Advisory services and technical assistance for Burundi .............................. 53 II. Decisions adopted by the Council at its ninth session ........................................ 55 9/101. Missing persons ........................................................................................... 55 9/102. Commemorative session on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ........................................... 55 9/103. Strengthening of the Human Rights Council ............................................... 56 III. President’s statements agreed upon by the Council at its ninth session ........................................................................................................... 57 PRST/9/1. Situation of human rights in Haiti ........................................................ 57 PRST/9/2. Follow-up to President’s statement 8/1 ................................................ 58 Paragraphs Part Two: Summary of proceedings ......................................................... 1 - 247 59 I. Organizational and procedural matters ......................................... 1 - 41 59 A. Opening and duration of the session ....................................... 1 - 4 59 B. Attendance .............................................................................. 5 59 C. Agenda and programme of work of the session ...................... 6 - 7 59 D. Organization of work .............................................................. 8 - 13 59 E. Meetings .................................................................................. 14 60 F. Visits ....................................................................................... 15 61 A/HRC/9/28 page 4 CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Page I. (continued) G. Review, rationalization and improvement of mandates .......... 16 - 28 61 H. Conference facilities and financial support for the Human Rights Council ............................................................ 29 - 30 62 I. Selection and appointment of mandate-holders ...................... 31 62 J. Consideration and action on draft proposals ........................... 32 - 37 63 K. Adoption of the report on the session ..................................... 38 - 41 63 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 ............................ 42 - 45 64 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ...................................................................................... 46 - 157 65 A. Panels ...................................................................................... 46 - 58 65 B. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict ..................................................... 59 - 61 67 C. Interactive dialogue with special procedures .......................... 62 - 80 67 D. Follow-up to the special session on the global food crisis ................................................................................ 81 - 84 70 E. Reports presented under agenda item 3 and general debate on that item .................................................................. 85 - 88 71 F. Consideration and action on draft proposals ........................... 89 - 157 72 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention ............................................................................................. 158 - 175 79 A. Situation of human rights in the Sudan ................................... 158 - 162 79 B. General debate on agenda item 4 ............................................ 163 - 168 79 C. Consideration and action on draft proposals ........................... 169 - 175 81 A/HRC/9/28 page 5 CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Page V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms ........................................... 176 - 181 82 A. Complaint procedure ............................................................... 176 - 177 82 B. General debate on agenda item 5 ............................................ 178 - 181 82 VI. Universal periodic review ................................................................ 182 - 189 84 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ................................................................................. 190 - 203 85 A. Follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution S-3/1 ........... 190 - 193 85 B. General debate on agenda item 7 ............................................ 194 - 196 85 C. Consideration and action on draft proposals ........................... 197 - 203 86 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ............................................................... 204 - 207 88 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ................. 208 - 223 89 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedures .......................... 208 - 211 89 B. Reports presented under agenda item 9 and general debate on that item ..................................................... 212 - 217 89 C. Consideration and action on draft proposals ........................... 218 - 223 91 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ................................... 224 - 247 92 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedures .......................... 224 - 229 92 B. General debate on agenda item 10 .......................................... 230 92 C. Consideration and action on draft proposals ........................... 231 - 247 93 A/HRC/9/28 page 6 CONTENTS (continued) Page Annexes I. Agenda .................................................................................................................... 95 II. Administrative and programme budget implications of Council resolutions, decisions and President’s statements ...................................................................... 96 III. Attendance .............................................................................................................. 108 IV. Mandate-holders appointed by the Council at its ninth session ............................. 113 V. List of documents issued for the ninth session of the Council ..............................