A/HRC/27/2 Advance unedited version Distr.: General 22 December 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-seventh session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the Human Rights Council on its twenty-seventh session Vice-President and Rapporteur: Ms. Kateřina Sequensová (Czech Republic) GE.14- A/HRC/27/2 Contents Chapter Paragraphs Page Part One: Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session ............................................................................................... 4 I. Resolutions ....................................................................................................................................... 4 II. Decisions .......................................................................................................................................... 5 III. President’s statements ...................................................................................................................... 6 Part Two: Summary of proceedings ........................................................................................ 1–1032 7 I. Organizational and procedural matters .................................................................... 1–37 7 A. Opening and duration of the session ............................................................... 1–3 7 B. Attendance ...................................................................................................... 4 7 C. Agenda and programme of work .................................................................... 5–6 7 D. Organization of work ...................................................................................... 7–11 7 E. Meetings and documentation .......................................................................... 12–13 8 F. Visits ............................................................................................................... 14–16 8 G. Election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee ..... 17–19 9 H. Selection and appointment of mandate holders .............................................. 20–22 9 I. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 23–32 10 J. Adoption of the report of the session .............................................................. 33–37 11 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 ........... 38–45 12 A. Update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights .......... 38–41 12 B. Reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General . 42–45 13 III. Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development ................................. 46–292 14 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ....................... 46–94 14 B. Panels .............................................................................................................. 95–150 21 C. General debate on agenda item 3 .................................................................... 151–156 28 D. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 157–292 31 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention .................................. 293–306 50 A. Interactive dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic .............................................................. 293–296 50 B. General debate on agenda item 4 .................................................................... 297–300 50 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 301–306 52 V. Human rights bodies and mechanisms .................................................................... 307–321 53 A. Complaint procedure ...................................................................................... 307–308 53 B. Interactive dialogue with the Advisory Committee ........................................ 309–311 53 2 A/HRC/27/2 C. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ................................ 312–313 53 D. Open-ended inter-governmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the right to peace ..................................................................... 314 53 E. General debate on agenda item 5 .................................................................... 315–316 54 F. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 317–321 55 VI. Universal periodic review ....................................................................................... 322–913 56 A. Consideration of universal periodic review outcomes .................................... 324–898 56 B. General debate on agenda item 6 .................................................................... 899 134 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 900–913 134 VII. Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ................ 914–916 136 A. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ........... 914 136 B. General debate on agenda item 7 .................................................................... 915–916 136 VIII. Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action .............................................................................................. 917–959 137 A. Annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective ........................ 917–923 137 B. General debate on agenda item 8 .................................................................... 924–925 138 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 926–959 139 IX. Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action ....................................................................................... 960–970 144 A. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ....................... 960–963 144 B. General debate on agenda item 9 .................................................................... 964–965 144 C. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 966–970 145 X. Technical assistance and capacity-building ............................................................. 971–1032 146 A. Interactive dialogue on cooperation and assistance to Ukraine in the field of human rights ............................................................................. 971–975 146 B. Interactive dialogue with special procedures mandate holders ....................... 976–996 146 C. Panels .............................................................................................................. 997–1002 149 D. General debate on agenda item 10 .................................................................. 1003–1006 150 E. Consideration of and action on draft proposals .............................................. 1007–1032 151 Annexes I. Attendance........................................................................................................................................ 154 II. Agenda ............................................................................................................................................. 161 III. Documents issued for the twenty-seventh session ........................................................................... 162 IV. Advisory Committee members elected by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session and duration of terms of membership .................................................................................. 191 V. Special procedures mandate holders appointed by the Human Rights Council at its organizational meeting of 6 November 2014 ........................................................................... 192 3 A/HRC/27/2 Part One Resolutions, decisions and President’s statements adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session I. Resolutions Resolution Title Date of adoption 27/1 Enforced or involuntary disappearances 25 September 2014 27/2 The right to development 25 September 2014 27/3 Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation 25 September 2014 and guarantees of non-recurrence 27/4 Local government and human rights 25 September 2014 27/5 The safety of journalists 25 September 2014 27/6 Panel discussion on realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to 25 September 2014 education by every girl 27/7 The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation 25 September 2014 27/8 Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal 25 September 2014 27/9 Mandate of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a 25 September 2014 democratic and equitable international order 27/10 The use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights 25 September 2014 and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self- determination 27/11 Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights 25 September 2014 27/12 World Programme for Human Rights Education: adoption of 25 September 2014 the plan of action for the third phase 27/13 Human rights and indigenous peoples