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

Thursday June 27, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CEST

Room XXIV/Hybrid

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

Contact person: Mr. Luc Dockendorf
Permanent Mission of Luxembourg
luc.dockendorf@mae.etat.lu

Thursday June 27, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am CEST
Room XXIV/Hybrid

Informal consultations

10:00am CEST

ID with SR on freedom of expression (continued)

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am 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

Civil and political rights

Freedom of opinion and expression

A/HRC/56/53 - Journalists in exile - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

A/HRC/56/53/Add.1 - Visit to Honduras - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

A/HRC/56/53/Add.2 - Visit to Serbia and Kosovo* - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

A/HRC/56/NGO/42
A/HRC/56/NGO/43
A/HRC/56/NGO/48
A/HRC/56/NGO/53
A/HRC/56/NGO/56
A/HRC/56/NGO/63
A/HRC/56/NGO/72
A/HRC/56/NGO/105
A/HRC/56/NGO/106
A/HRC/56/NGO/115
A/HRC/56/NGO/119
A/HRC/56/NGO/121
A/HRC/56/NGO/125
A/HRC/56/NGO/138
A/HRC/56/NGO/146
A/HRC/56/NGO/148
A/HRC/56/NGO/153
A/HRC/56/NGO/164
A/HRC/56/NGO/168
A/HRC/56/NGO/175
A/HRC/56/NGO/181
A/HRC/56/NGO/189
A/HRC/56/NGO/193
A/HRC/56/NGO/206
A/HRC/56/NGO/209
A/HRC/56/NGO/211
A/HRC/56/NGO/212
A/HRC/56/NGO/214

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

Irene Khan

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 13th meeting

10:00am CEST

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

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am CEST

Room XXI/ 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

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:00am - 11:30am CEST
Room XXI/ Hybrid

Informal consultations

10:00am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:00am - 1:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Missions of Costa Rica and Switzerland

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:00am - 1:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Informal consultations

10:30am CEST

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

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CEST

Room XXIV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Mission of Ecuador

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CEST
Room XXIV

Informal consultations

10:30am CEST

ID with SR on trafficking

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:30am - 1:10pm 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

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

A/HRC/56/60 - Trafficking in persons, mixed migration and protection at sea - Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children

A/HRC/56/60/Add.1 - Visit to Colombia - Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children

A/HRC/56/60/Add.2 - Visit to the Central African Republic - Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children

A/HRC/56/NGO/76
A/HRC/56/NGO/122
A/HRC/56/NGO/144
A/HRC/56/NGO/150
A/HRC/56/NGO/160

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

Siobhán Mullally

Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children

Thursday June 27, 2024 10:30am - 1:10pm CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 14th meeting

11:30am CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights in Colombia to implement the recommendations of the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence

Thursday June 27, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Mission of Colombia

Thursday June 27, 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Informal consultations

1:00pm CEST

Side event - Civic Space in Asia

Thursday June 27, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development

Thursday June 27, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

1:00pm CEST

Side event - Leveraging international human rights to strengthen mine action through a victim-centred approach

Thursday June 27, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST

Room XXIV

Side event organized by the Permanent Mission of Croatia and and Universal Rights Group

Thursday June 27, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST
Room XXIV

Side event

1:00pm CEST

Side event - Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights: Working together to advance the human rights protection of asylum-seekers and refugees

Thursday June 27, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Side event organized by OHCHR/SPB/Regional mechanisms Roadmaps, PIERR: Platform of Independent Mechanisms on Refugees Rights and UNHCR

Thursday June 27, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Side event

2:00pm CEST

Side event - Gender Apartheid: Case Studies

Thursday June 27, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST

XXV/Hybrid

Side event organized by International Bar Association

Contact person: Ms. Francesca Restifo
francesca.restifo@int-bar.org

Thursday June 27, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
XXV/Hybrid

Side event

2:00pm CEST

Side event - The Right to Adequate Food – Contributions from the UN Committee on World Food Security

Thursday June 27, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST

Room XXII

Side event organized by OHCHR, FAO, FIAN International, German Institute for Human Rights and Permanent Missions of Brazil, Cuba, Germany, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland

Thursday June 27, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CEST
Room XXII

Side event

3:00pm CEST

Side event - Human Rights in Argentina

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) Asociación Civil

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

3:00pm CEST

ID with IE on international solidarity

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:15pm 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

Interrelation of human rights and human rights thematic issues

Human rights and international solidarity

A/HRC/56/57 - Participation of civil society organizations seeking to express international solidarity through transnational, international and regional networks - Report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity

A/HRC/56/NGO/45
A/HRC/56/NGO/167
A/HRC/56/NGO/178

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

Cecilia M. Bailliet

Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:15pm CEST
Room XX

Interactive dialogues, 15th meeting

3:00pm CEST

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

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CEST

Room XXI/ Hybrid

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CEST
Room XXI/ Hybrid

Informal consultations

3:00pm CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolution on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CEST

Room XXII

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Mission of Pakistan on behalf of the OIC Group

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 4:30pm CEST
Room XXII

Informal consultations

3:00pm CEST

Informal consultations on the draft resolutions on menstrual hygiene management and on the mandate of the Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (EMLER)

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 6:00pm CEST

Room XXIV

Informal consultations organized by the Permanent Mission of Gambia on behalf of the African Group

Thursday June 27, 2024 3:00pm - 6:00pm CEST
Room XXIV

Informal consultations

4:00pm CEST

Side event - Freedom and Human Rights

Thursday June 27, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CEST

Room XXV

Side event organized by the Permanent Mission of Argentina

PANELISTS
--Mr. Carlos Foradori - Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Argentina to the International Organizations in Geneva
--Ms. Yevheniia Filipenko - Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN in Geneva
--Ms. María Alejandra Aristeguieta Alvarez - Venezuelan Human Rights Defender
--Mr. Juan Sebastián Chamorro - Nicaraguan Human Rights Defender.

Thursday June 27, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CEST
Room XXV

Side event

4:15pm CEST

ID with WG on discrimination against women and girls

Thursday June 27, 2024 4:15pm - 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/56/51 - Escalating backlash against gender equality and urgency of reaffirming substantive equality and the human rights of women and girls - Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

A/HRC/56/51/Add.1 - Visit to Mauritania - Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

A/HRC/56/51/Add.2 - Visit to Malta - Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

A/HRC/56/NGO/58
A/HRC/56/NGO/80
A/HRC/56/NGO/88
A/HRC/56/NGO/124
A/HRC/56/NGO/131
A/HRC/56/NGO/207

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