Human Rights Council 56th session

Opening of the session 

Agenda and annotations (A/HRC/56/1) 

Internet page for the session: 

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session56/regular-session

Extranet page for the session: 

https://hrcmeetings.ohchr.org/HRCSessions/RegularSessions/56/Pages/default.aspx

Calendar and 3-year programme of work:

https://hrcmeetings.ohchr.org/PresidencyBureau/Pages/Calendar%20and%20programme%20of%20work.aspx

Agenda item 2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Interactive dialogue on the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/56/23 - Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Advance unedited version)

A/HRC/56/64 - Situation of human rights in Myanmar - Note by the Secretariat

A/HRC/56/NGO/15
A/HRC/56/NGO/39

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.

Agenda item 2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Situation of human rights in Afghanistan

Enhanced interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, on a report on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan

A/HRC/RES/51/20;
A/HRC/56/25 - The phenomenon of an institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation, disrespect for human dignity and exclusion of women and girls - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan

A/HRC/56/NGO/32

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.