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Dear friends,<br class="kix-line-break">
<p dir="ltr"><span> The </span><a
href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session24/Pages/24RegularSession.aspx"><span>programme</span></a><span>
for the upcoming session of the </span><a
href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/HRCIndex.aspx"><span>Human
Rights Council</span></a><span> is now available. This is
session the 24th session of the Council (HRC24) and will be
taking place from 9-27 September in Geneva.</span></p>
<span>Plenary sessions will be live streamed and archived at: </span><a
href="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/c/un-human-rights-council.html"><span>http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/c/un-human-rights-council.html
</span></a><span><br>
The twitter hashtag for the session is #HRC24</span>
<p dir="ltr"><span> 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
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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
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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 </span><a
href="http://bestbits.net/prism-nsa/"><span>civil society
statement</span></a><span> from HRC23 calling for some means
to ensure more systematic attention by the UN to internet
related human rights violations.</span> <span><a
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href="https://www.accessnow.org/policy/docs"></a></span></p>
<span>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: </span><a
href="http://www.apc.org/en/node/18478/">http://www.apc.org/en/node/18478/</a><br>
<span></span>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Should you have additional questions please
contact: deborah [at] accessnow [dot] org and joy [at] apc [dot]
org</span></p>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Joy Liddicoat<br>
Programme Coordinator<br>
Internet Access and Rights<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.apc.org">www.apc.org</a><br>
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