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Human Rights Council 48th Session

Welcome to the meeting calendar of the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council

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

Featured Speakers

Michelle Bachelet

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Nazhat Shameem Khan

President of the Human Rights Council

Keva Lorraine Bain

Vice-President of the Human Rights Council

Monique Van Daalen

Vice President of the Human Rights Council

H.E. Ms. Ebyan Mahamed Salah

Vice-President of the Human Rights Council

Yuri Sterk

Vice-President of the Human Rights Council

Speakers

Karen Koning AbuZayd

Member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for...

E. Tendayi Achiume

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial...

Barney Afako

Member of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

Yao Agbetse

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Central...

Saad Alfarargi

Special Rapporteur on the right to development

Tom Andrews

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

Jelena Aparac, Chair-Rapporteur

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Pedro Arrojo-Agudo

Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and...

Pouria Askari

Associate Professor of International Law, Allameh Tabataba’i...

Lucy Asuagbor

Member of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi

Mohamed Auajjar

Chair of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya

Audrey Azoulay

Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...

Tae-Ung Baik, Chair-Rapporteur

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Aua Balde

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Chaloka Beyani

Member of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya

Lilian Bobea

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Rt Hon Gordon Brown

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

Commissioner Luís Carrilho

United Nations Police Adviser

Max Trejo Cervantes

Secretary-General of Organismo Internacional de Juventud para...

H.E. Mr. David Choquehuanca Céspedes

Vice-President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

Mahamane Cissé-Gouro

Director of OHCHR Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division

Gabriella Citroni

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Andrew Clapham

Member of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

Miriam Estrada-Castillo, Vice-Chair on Communications

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Ravindran Daniel

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Megan Davis

Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Dominique Day, Chairperson

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Doudou Diène

Members of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi

Alena Douhan

Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive...

Isha Dyfan

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia

Miriam Ekiudoko

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Stefania Giannini

Assistant Director-General for Education of the United Nations...

Priya Gopalan

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Joy Gordon

Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Chair in Social Ethics, Philosophy...

Antonio Gueterres

United Nations

Secretary-General

Gunilla von Hall

Foreign Correspondent in Geneva for the Swedish newspaper Svenska...

Francoise Hampson

Member of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi

Luciano A. Hazan

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Peggy Hicks

Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to...

Ardi Imseis

Member of the Group of Eminent Experts

Kamel Jendoubi

Chair of the Group of Eminent Experts

Lysa John

Secretary General of CIVICUS

Ilze Brands Kehris

Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights

Nicholas Koumjian

Head of Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar

H.E. Ms. Simona Kustec

Minister for Education, Science and Sport of Slovenia

Chris M. A. Kwaja

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Jannie Lasimbang

Former Chair and Member of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of...

George A. Lopez

Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, United...

Sorcha MacLeod

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Claudia Mahler

Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older...

Mumba Malila

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Irfaan Mangera

Youth Activism Programme Manager at the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation

Hanny Megally

Member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for...

Henrikas Mickevičius, Vice-Chairperson

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Tlaleng Mofokeng

Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the...

Vitit Muntarbhorn

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia

Catherine S. Namakula

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Bacre Ndiaye

Member of the International Team of Experts on the Kasaï region

Lainah Ndiweni

Legal researcher, Veritas Zimbabwe

Anne Nuorgam

Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Tomoya Obokata

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its...

Marcos A. Orellana

Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the...

Melissa Parke

Member of the Group of Eminent Experts

Gwendolyn Ll. Pimentel-Gana

Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria

Jaroslaw Ponder

Head of the Office for Europe at the International Telecommunication...

Sushil Raj

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Ahmed Reid

Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Tracy Robinson

Member of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya

Tom Ruys

Professor of International Law, Ghent University, Belgium

Fabian Salvioli

Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and...

Magdalena Sepúlveda

Executive Director of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and...

Livingstone Sewanyana

Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable...

Yuval Shany

Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law at the Hebrew...

Yasmin Sooka

Chair of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

Elina Steinerte, Chair-Rapporteur

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nobel Laureate Economist, Columbia

Leigh Toomey

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

José Francisco Cali Tzay

Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

Patricia Tappatá Valdez

Member of the fact-finding mission on Venezuela

Marta Valiñas

Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the...

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Tatiana Vasconcelos

Disability consultant

Francisco Cox Vial

Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the...

Vernor Muñoz Villalobos

Board Member of Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica

Clément Nyaletsossi Voule

Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and...

Zhang Wanhong

Professor of Jurisprudence, Wuhan University School of Law, China

Jayathma Wickramanayake

Envoy of the Secretary-General on Youth