[bestbits] Human Rights Council Briefing Note: 24th Session

[Deborah Brown]

Dear friends,

The programme<http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session24/Pages/24RegularSession.aspx>
for
the upcoming session of the Human Rights
Council<http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/HRCIndex.aspx>  is
now available. This is session the 24th session of the Council (HRC24) and
will be taking place from 9-27 September in Geneva.

Plenary sessions will be live streamed and archived at:
http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/c/un-human-rights-council.html
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.

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.

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 civil society
statement<http://bestbits.net/prism-nsa/> from
HRC23 calling for some means to ensure more systematic attention by the UN
to internet related human rights violations.

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:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/access.3cdn.net/cd66494991b8ae040f_bfm6bnbrj.pdf
Should you have additional questions please contact: deborah [at] accessnow
[dot] org and joy [at] apc [dot] org

Kind regards,
Deborah

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Deborah Brown
Senior Policy Analyst
Access | AccessNow.org
E. deborah at accessnow.org
@deblebrown
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