<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dear friends,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
The <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session24/Pages/24RegularSession.aspx" target="_blank">programme</a> for the upcoming session of the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/HRCIndex.aspx" target="_blank">Human Rights Council</a> is now available. This is session the 24th session of the Council (HRC24) and will be taking place from <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">9-27 September</span></span> in Geneva. <br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Plenary sessions will be live streamed and archived at: <a href="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/c/un-human-rights-council.html" target="_blank">http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/c/un-human-rights-council.html</a><br>
The twitter hashtag for the session is #HRC24. This will be a busy 15 day session, with several full-day non-stop meetings as well as a variety of side-events, open and closed sessions for resolution negotiations, planning sessions and other meetings.<br>
<br>The High Commissioner for Human Rights will present her update, and an interactive dialogue will take place with the Human Rights Advisory Committee as well as a number of Special Procedures, including on indigenous peoples, on truth justice and reparation, and on contemporary forms of slavery. The Commission of Inquiry on Syria will also provide an update to the HRC. There will be the annual discussion on gender integration. The Council will consider Universal Periodic Review (UPR) reports on Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, Cameroon, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Colombia, Uzbekistan, Tuvalu, Germany, Djibouti, and Canada.<br>
<br>HRC24 will also present an opportunity, in light of the recent Snowden revelations, to further discuss issues of mass surveillance and privacy rights, building on the <a href="http://bestbits.net/prism-nsa/" target="_blank">civil society statement</a> from HRC23 calling for some means to ensure more systematic attention by the UN to internet related human rights violations.<br>
<br>We’ve prepared a short briefing on the three particular internet related human rights items that will be addressed at HRC 24, as well as some background on the Council’s work on the internet and human rights which is available here: <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/cd66494991b8ae040f_bfm6bnbrj.pdf">https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/cd66494991b8ae040f_bfm6bnbrj.pdf</a><br>
</p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Should you have additional questions please contact: deborah [at] accessnow [dot] org and joy [at] apc [dot] org</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Kind regards,</span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Deborah <br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="garamond, serif">Deborah Brown</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font face="garamond, serif">Senior Policy Analyst</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="garamond, serif">Access | AccessNow.org</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font face="garamond, serif">E. <a href="mailto:deborah@accessnow.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">deborah@accessnow.org</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font face="garamond, serif">@deblebrown</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="garamond, serif">PGP 0x5EB4727D</font></div></div>
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