United Nations A/HRC/28/2 General Assembly Distr.: General 7 May 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its twenty-eighth session Vice-President and Rapporteur : Mothusi Bruce Rabasha Palai (Botswana) GE.19-07475(E) *1907475* A/HRC/28/2 Contents Page Part One: Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-eighth 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. High-level segment ............................................................................................................... 7 D. General segment ................................................................................................................... 11 E. Agenda and programme of work .......................................................................................... 12 F. Organization of work ............................................................................................................ 13 G. Meetings and documentation ................................................................................................ 13 H. Visits ..................................................................................................................................... 14 I. Selection and appointment of mandate holders .................................................................... 14 J. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 14 K. Adoption of the report of the session .................................................................................... 14 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 ....................................................... 16 A. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...................... 16 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ....................... 17 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 18 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ........................................................................ 20 A. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 20 B. Interactive dialogue with special procedure mandate holders .............................................. 24 C. Interactive dialogue with special representatives of the Secretary-General .......................... 30 D. General debate on agenda item 3 .......................................................................................... 32 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 34 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention ........................................................ 49 A. Oral update by the commission of inquiry on human rights in Eritrea ................................. 49 B. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ...................................................................................................... 49 C. Interactive dialogue with special procedure mandate holders .............................................. 50 D. General debate on agenda item 4 .......................................................................................... 51 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 53 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms .......................................................................................... 57 A. Forum on Minority Issues ..................................................................................................... 57 2 A/HRC/28/2 B. Special procedures ................................................................................................................ 57 C. General debate on agenda item 5 .......................................................................................... 57 VI. Universal periodic review ............................................................................................................. 59 A. Consideration of review outcomes ........................................................................................ 59 B. General debate on agenda item 6 .......................................................................................... 126 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 127 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ...................................... 129 A. Oral update by the independent international commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in the context of the military operations conducted since 13 June 2014 ............ 129 B. Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 ........................................................................... 129 C. Reports of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ............................................ 130 D. General debate on agenda item 7 .......................................................................................... 130 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 131 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ............. 134 A. General debate on agenda item 8 .......................................................................................... 134 B. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 135 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ......................................... 136 A. Debate on the state of racial discrimination worldwide ........................................................ 136 B. General debate on agenda item 9 .......................................................................................... 136 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 137 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ................................................................................... 138 A. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 138 B. Interactive dialogue with special procedure mandate holders .............................................. 139 C. General debate on agenda item 10 ........................................................................................ 141 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 142 Annexes I. Attendance..................................................................................................................................... 145 II. Agenda .......................................................................................................................................... 152 III. Documents issued for the twenty-eighth session ........................................................................... 153 IV. Special procedures mandate holders appointed by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-eighth session ........................................................................................................................................... 181 3 A/HRC/28/2 Part One Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-eighth session I. Resolutions Resolution Title Date of adoption 28/1 Composition of staff of the Office of the