Human Rights Council 56th session: Full Schedule

Welcome to the meeting calendar of the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council

Please note that meeting details may be subject to change and are updated daily

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9:00am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls

Friday June 21, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CEST

Room XXV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of Chile and Mexico

Friday June 21, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CEST
Room XXV

Informal consultations

9:00am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on the right to education: OEWG to draft CRC optional, protocol recognizing the rights to ECCE, free pre-primary and secondary education

Friday June 21, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CEST

Room XXIV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of the Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone and Luxembourg

Friday June 21, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CEST
Room XXIV

Informal consultations

10:00am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on freedom of opinion and expression

Friday June 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am CEST

Room XXII

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of Brazil, Canada, Fiji, Namibia, Netherlands and Sweden

Contact person: Ms. Charlotte Marres
HR Officer
Permanent Mission of the Netherlands
charlotte.marres@minbuza.nl

Friday June 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am CEST
Room XXII

Informal consultations

10:00am CEST

ID with IE on sexual orientation and gender identity (continued)

Friday June 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am CEST

Room XX

Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Rights of peoples and of specific groups and individuals

Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

A/HRC/56/49 - Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Graeme Reid

A/HRC/56/49/Add.1 - Visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

A/HRC/56/49/Add.2 - Visit to Cambodia - Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

A/HRC/56/49/Add.3 - Visit to the United States of America - Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

For all interactive dialogues, the online inscription for the lists of speakers opens on Monday 10 June at 4 p.m., and closes 24 hours before the meeting in which the respective debate is scheduled to start. In exceptional cases, after the online inscription has closed, delegations may still inscribe or withdraw by either approaching the list of speakers desk in room XX or sending an email to ohchr-hrclistofspeakers@un.org.
NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online. Speakers intending to participate in person are requested to confirm their participation at ohchr-ngoconfirmation@un.org.

Speaking time is 1.5 minutes for all. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.

The lists of speakers will be made available on the Extranet the day before the debate or dialogue is scheduled to start and will be updated live

Speakers

Graeme Reid

Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity

Friday June 21, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 6th meeting

10:30am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls

Friday June 21, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CEST

Room XXIV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of Chile and Mexico

Friday June 21, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CEST
Room XXIV

Informal consultations

11:00am CEST

Side event - Summit for the Future: The Civil Society Engagement in the United Nations

Friday June 21, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by Rosa-Luxembourg-Stiftung - Gesellschaftsanalyse und Politische Bildung e.V.

Friday June 21, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

11:30am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on human rights and climate change

Friday June 21, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of Bangladesh, Philippines and Viet Nam

Friday June 21, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Informal consultations

11:30am CEST

ID with SR on internally displaced persons

Friday June 21, 2024 11:30am - 1:15pm CEST

Room XX

Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Rights of peoples and of specific groups and individuals

Human rights of internally displaced persons

A/HRC/56/47 - Climate change - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

A/HRC/56/47/Add.1 - Visit to Mozambique - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

A/HRC/56/NGO/2
A/HRC/56/NGO/67
A/HRC/56/NGO/102
A/HRC/56/NGO/133

For all interactive dialogues, the online inscription for the lists of speakers opens on Monday 10 June at 4 p.m., and closes 24 hours before the meeting in which the respective debate is scheduled to start. In exceptional cases,after the online inscription has closed, delegations may still inscribe or withdraw by either approaching the list of speakers desk in room XX or sending an email to ohchr-hrclistofspeakers@un.org.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online. Speakers intending to participate in person are requested to confirm their participation at ohchr-ngoconfirmation@un.org.

Speaking time is 1.5 minutes for all. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.

The lists of speakers will be made available on the Extranet the day before the debate or dialogue is scheduled to start and will be updated live

Speakers

Paula GAVIRIA

Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Friday June 21, 2024 11:30am - 1:15pm CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 7th meeting

12:00pm CEST

Side event - Human Rights in the State of Palestine

Friday June 21, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling

Friday June 21, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

12:00pm CEST

Informal consultations on the draft decision on enhancing the support capabilities to advance the process of the open-ended intergovernmental working group established by Human Rights Council resolution 26/9

Friday June 21, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm CEST

Room XXIV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Mission of Ecuador

Friday June 21, 2024 12:00pm - 1:30pm CEST
Room XXIV

Informal consultations

1:00pm CEST

Side event - Human Trafficking in the Context of Armed Conflict

Friday June 21, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by Réseau Unité pour le Développement de Mauritanie

Friday June 21, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

1:00pm CEST

Side event - Next steps to implement the recommendations of the thematic report to HRC56 by the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

Friday June 21, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Co-sponsors of the side event: Permanent Mission of Greece, OHCHR, Permanent Missions of Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, European Union, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United States of America, and Uruguay

Friday June 21, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Side event

1:30pm CEST

Side event - Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the work of the Human Rights Council: Our success stories

Friday June 21, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm CEST

XXIV

Side event organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Permanent Missions of Maldives and Mauritius

Friday June 21, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm CEST
XXIV

Side event

2:00pm CEST

Side event - Human Rights in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Friday June 21, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST

XXV/Hybrid

Side event organized by the International Lesbian and Gay Association

Contact person: Mr. Gabriel Galil
gabriel@ilga.org

Friday June 21, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
XXV/Hybrid

Side event

2:00pm CEST

Side event - Taking the Addis Ababa Roadmap further: Engagement on Eritrea by the UN and African human rights systems

Friday June 21, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Side event organized by the Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and co-sponsored by East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project

Friday June 21, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Side event

2:30pm CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS

Friday June 21, 2024 2:30pm - 6:00pm CEST

Room XXIV/Hybrid

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique, Portugal and Thailand

Contact person:
Mr. Thiago Melamed de Menezes
Permanent Mission of Brazil
thiago.menezes@itamaraty.gov.br

Friday June 21, 2024 2:30pm - 6:00pm CEST
Room XXIV/Hybrid

Informal consultations

3:00pm CEST

ID with SR on internally displaced persons (continued)

Friday June 21, 2024 3:00pm - 3:20pm CEST

Room XX

Speakers

Paula GAVIRIA

Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Friday June 21, 2024 3:00pm - 3:20pm CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 7th meeting

3:00pm CEST

Side event - A human rights-based approach to planned relocations in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change

Friday June 21, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST

XXV/Hybrid

Side event co-organized by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons and the Platform on Disaster Displacement and co-sponsored by Austria, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Fiji, Luxembourg, Mexico, Caritas Internationalis, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).

Contact person: Ms. Shushan Khachyan
Human rights officer
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
shushan.khacyan@un.org

Friday June 21, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
XXV/Hybrid

Side event

3:00pm CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on freedom of opinion and expression

Friday June 21, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CEST

Room XXII

Friday June 21, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CEST
Room XXII

Informal consultations

3:30pm CEST

ID with SR on leprosy

Friday June 21, 2024 3:30pm - 4:45pm CEST

Room XX

Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Rights of peoples and of specific groups and individuals

Elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and their family members

A/HRC/56/59 - Elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and their family members - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and their family members

For all interactive dialogues, the online inscription for the lists of speakers opens on Monday 10 June at 4 p.m., and closes 24 hours before the meeting in which the respective debate is scheduled to start. In exceptional cases, after the online inscription has closed, delegations may still inscribe or withdraw by either approaching the list of speakers desk in room XX or sending an email to ohchr-hrclistofspeakers@un.org.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online. Speakers intending to participate in person are requested to confirm their participation at ohchr-ngoconfirmation@un.org.

Speaking time is 1.5 minutes for all. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.

The lists of speakers will be made available on the Extranet the day before the debate or dialogue is scheduled to start and will be updated live

Speakers

Beatriz Miranda-Galarza

Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members

Friday June 21, 2024 3:30pm - 4:45pm CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 7th meeting

4:00pm CEST

Side event - Women's Rights in the Context of Armed Conflict

Friday June 21, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by International Muslim Women's Union

Friday June 21, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

4:30pm CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on the promotion and protection of the human rights of seafarers

Friday June 21, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines

Friday June 21, 2024 4:30pm - 6:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Informal consultations

4:45pm CEST

ID with SR on violence against women and girls

Friday June 21, 2024 4:45pm - 6:15pm CEST

Room XX

Agenda item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Rights of peoples and of specific groups and individuals

Elimination of discrimination against women and girls

A/HRC/56/48 - Prostitution and violence against women - Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

A/HRC/56/48/Add.1 - Visit to Poland - Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

A/HRC/56/NGO/18
A/HRC/56/NGO/46
A/HRC/56/NGO/47
A/HRC/56/NGO/49
A/HRC/56/NGO/51
A/HRC/56/NGO/54
A/HRC/56/NGO/87
A/HRC/56/NGO/107
A/HRC/56/NGO/111
A/HRC/56/NGO/127
A/HRC/56/NGO/141
A/HRC/56/NGO/143
A/HRC/56/NGO/155
A/HRC/56/NGO/156
A/HRC/56/NGO/165
A/HRC/56/NGO/171
A/HRC/56/NGO/191
A/HRC/56/NGO/192

For all interactive dialogues, the online inscription for the lists of speakers opens on Monday 10 June at 4 p.m., and closes 24 hours before the meeting in which the respective debate is scheduled to start. In exceptional cases, after the online inscription has closed, delegations may still inscribe or withdraw by either approaching the list of speakers desk in room XX or sending an email to ohchr-hrclistofspeakers@un.org.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online. Speakers intending to participate in person are requested to confirm their participation at ohchr-ngoconfirmation@un.org.

Speaking time is 1.5 minutes for all. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.

The lists of speakers will be made available on the Extranet the day before the debate or dialogue is scheduled to start and will be updated live

Speakers