United Nations A/HRC/35/2 General Assembly Distr.: General 4 May 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fifth session 6–23 June 2017 Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its thirty- fifth session Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mouayed Saleh (Iraq) GE.20-06351(E) A/HRC/35/2 Contents Chapter Page Part One: Resolutions, decision and President’s statement adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session ........................................................................................................... 4 I. Resolutions .................................................................................................................................... 4 II. Decision ........................................................................................................................................ 5 III. President’s statement ..................................................................................................................... 5 Part Two: Summary of proceedings ......................................................................................................... 6 I. Organizational and procedural matters .......................................................................................... 6 A. Opening and duration of the session ..................................................................................... 6 B. Attendance ............................................................................................................................ 6 C. Agenda and programme of work .......................................................................................... 6 D. Organization of work ............................................................................................................ 6 E. Meetings and documentation ................................................................................................ 6 F. Visits ..................................................................................................................................... 7 G. Selection and appointment of mandate holders .................................................................... 7 H. Adoption of the report on the session ................................................................................... 7 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 ................................. 9 A. Update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ................................ 9 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ....................... 10 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ....................................................... 11 A. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 11 B. Interactive dialogues with special procedure mandate holders ............................................. 15 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 ........................................................ 46 A. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ........................................................................................................... 46 B. Interactive dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi ........................................ 46 C. Interactive dialogues with special procedure mandate holders ............................................. 47 D. General debate on agenda item 4 .......................................................................................... 48 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 50 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms .......................................................................................... 53 A. Forum on Business and Human Rights ................................................................................. 53 B. General debate on agenda item 5 .......................................................................................... 53 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 54 VI. Universal periodic review ............................................................................................................. 55 General debate on agenda item 6 .................................................................................................. 55 2 A/HRC/35/2 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ...................................... 56 General debate on agenda item 7 .................................................................................................. 56 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ............. 57 General debate on agenda item 8 .................................................................................................. 57 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action .............................. 59 A. Interactive dialogue with a special procedure mandate holder ............................................. 59 B. General debate on agenda item 9 .......................................................................................... 59 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 60 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ................................................................................... 61 A. Interactive dialogue with a special procedure mandate holder ............................................. 61 B. Interactive dialogue on technical assistance and capacity-building for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....................................................... 61 C. Interactive dialogue on the High Commissioner’s oral presentation on the situation of human rights in Ukraine ....................................................................................................... 62 D. Annual thematic discussion on technical cooperation in the promotion and protection of human rights .................................................................................................... 62 E. General debate on agenda item 10 ........................................................................................ 64 F. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 65 Annexes I. Attendance..................................................................................................................................... 67 II. Agenda .......................................................................................................................................... 73 III. Documents issued for the thirty-fifth session ................................................................................ 74 IV. Special procedure mandate holders appointed by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session ......................................................................................................................... 97 3 A/HRC/35/2 Part One Resolutions, decision and President’s statement adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session I. Resolutions Resolution Title Date of adoption 35/1 Seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human 22 June 2017 Rights and twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 35/2 The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council 22 June 2017 resolution 8/4 35/3 Human rights and international solidarity 22 June 2017 35/4 Promotion of the right to peace 22 June 2017 35/5 Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, 22 June 2017 especially women and children 35/6 Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities 22 June 2017 35/7 Business and human rights: mandate of the Working Group on 22 June 2017 the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises 35/8 Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human 22 June 2017 rights 35/9 Elimination of discrimination against persons affected by 22 June 2017 leprosy and their family members 35/10 Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: 22 June 2017 engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls 35/11 Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of 22 June 2017 judges and lawyers 35/12 Independence and impartiality of the judiciary, jurors and 22 June 2017 assessors, and the independence of lawyers 35/13 Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the 22 June 2017 protection and promotion of human rights of older persons 35/14 Youth and human rights 22 June 2017 35/15 Mandate of the