United Nations A/HRC/34/2 General Assembly Distr.: General 4 May 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February–24 March 2017 Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its thirty-fourth session Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mouayed Saleh (Iraq) GE.20-06350(E) A/HRC/34/2 Contents Chapter Page Part One: Resolutions, decisions and President’s statement adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session ............................................................................................................................................. 5 I. Resolutions .................................................................................................................................... 5 II. Decisions ....................................................................................................................................... 7 III. President’s statement ..................................................................................................................... 8 Part Two: Summary of proceedings .................................................................................................................... 9 I. Organizational and procedural matters .......................................................................................... 9 A. Opening and duration of the session ..................................................................................... 9 B. Attendance ............................................................................................................................ 9 C. High-level segment ............................................................................................................... 9 D. General segment ................................................................................................................... 12 E. Organization of work ............................................................................................................ 13 F. Meetings and documentation ................................................................................................ 13 G. Visits ..................................................................................................................................... 13 H. Election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee ........................... 14 I. Selection and appointment of mandate holders .................................................................... 14 J. Adoption of the report on 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 ................................................. 15 A. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...................... 15 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General ....................... 16 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 17 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ........................................................................ 19 A. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 19 B. Enhanced interactive dialogue on the human rights of migrants .......................................... 25 C. Interactive dialogues with special procedure mandate holders ............................................. 26 D. Interactive dialogues with special representatives of the Secretary-General ........................ 34 E. Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights ................................................ 36 F. General debate on agenda item 3 .......................................................................................... 36 G. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 38 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention ........................................................ 52 A. Panel discussions .................................................................................................................. 52 B. Interactive dialogue with the commission of inquiry on Burundi ......................................... 53 C. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ........................................................................................................... 53 D. Interactive dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan ..................... 54 E. Interactive dialogues with special procedure mandate holders ............................................. 54 2 A/HRC/34/2 F. General debate on agenda item 4 .......................................................................................... 56 G. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 58 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms .......................................................................................... 62 A. Forum on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law ................................................. 62 B. Forum on Minority Issues ..................................................................................................... 62 C. Social Forum ......................................................................................................................... 62 D. Special procedure mandate holders ...................................................................................... 62 E. General debate on agenda item 5 .......................................................................................... 62 VI. Universal periodic review ............................................................................................................. 64 A. Consideration of the universal periodic review outcomes .................................................... 64 B. General debate on agenda item 6 .......................................................................................... 120 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 121 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ...................................... 123 A. Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 ..................................................................... 123 B. Reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Secretary-General ..................................................................................................... 123 C. General debate on agenda item 7 .......................................................................................... 123 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 124 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ............. 128 A. General debate on agenda item 8 .......................................................................................... 128 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ......................................... 130 A. Debate on racial profiling and incitement to hatred .............................................................. 130 B. General debate on agenda item 9 .......................................................................................... 131 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .................................................................... 132 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ................................................................................... 135 A. Interactive dialogue on cooperation with and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights ....................................................................................................... 135 B. Interactive dialogue on strengthening technical cooperation and advisory services for Guinea ............................................................................................................................. 135 C. Interactive dialogue on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ......................................................................................................................... 136 D. Interactive dialogue on technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya ........................................................................................................... 136 E. Interactive dialogues with special procedure mandate holders ............................................. 137 F. General debate on agenda item 10 ........................................................................................ 138 G. Consideration of and action on draft proposals. ..................................................................