A/HRC/43/65
(A/HRC/42/42/Add.2), and by the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
following visits to Belgium and Argentina.
25.
Conclusions and recommendations on the environment were made by the Special
Rapporteur on the right to food following her visit to Viet Nam, by the Special Rapporteur
on extreme poverty and human rights in his report on his visit to the Lao People’s Democratic
Republic (A/HRC/41/39/Add.2 and Corr.1), by the Working Group on the issue of human
rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises after its visits to Thailand
and to Kenya (A/HRC/41/43/Add.2), and by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of
indigenous peoples in her reports on Ecuador (A/HRC/42/37/Add.1) and on Timor-Leste
(A/HRC/42/37/Add.2).
26.
Lastly, several special procedure mandate holders presented reports on follow-up to
visits. The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of
opinion and expression made recommendations within the follow-up to the visits to Côte
d’Ivoire (2004), Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (2011), Honduras (2012), Japan
(2016) and Turkey (2016) (A/HRC/41/35/Add.2). The Working Group on Enforced or
Involuntary Disappearances presented a report on the follow-up to visits to Peru and Sri
Lanka (A/HRC/42/40/Add.1). The Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking
water and sanitation produced four separate reports on follow-up to visits to Portugal, El
Salvador, Botswana and Tajikistan (A/HRC/42/47/Add.3-Add.6).
C.
Communications reports
27.
The special procedure mandate holders presented three communications report, one
at each session of the Human Rights Council. The March report contained communications
sent by all mandate holders between 1 June and 30 November 2018 (A/HRC/40/79), the June
report contained the communications that had been sent by all mandate holders between 1
December 2018 and 28 February 2019 (A/HRC/41/56) and the September report contained
the communications sent by all mandate holders between 1 March and 31 May 2019
(A/HRC/42/65).
28.
Several mandate holders also presented reports containing observations on
communications sent and responses received: the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights defenders (A/HRC/40/60/Add.1 and Corr.1), the Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (A/HRC/41/36/Add.1) and the Special
Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
(A/HRC/41/41/Add.1).
D.
Other reports
29.
The Chair of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures presented the report
on the twenty-fifth annual meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent
experts and Chairs of working groups of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council,
including updated information on special procedures (A/HRC/40/38). The report was
accompanied by an addendum with relevant facts and figures (A/HRC/40/38/Add.1). The
report contains information on what has been achieved by mandate holders individually and
as a system in 2019.
30.
The Special Rapporteur on minority issues presented a report containing the
recommendations made at the eleventh session of the Forum on Minority Issues, which was
held on 29 and 30 November 2018 and considered the theme “Statelessness: a minority issue”
(A/HRC/40/71).
31.
The Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international
financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic,
social and cultural rights, presented a report entitled “Guiding principles on human rights
impact assessments of economic reforms” (A/HRC/40/57).
32.
The Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights presented a report to mark the
tenth anniversary of the mandate and took the opportunity to suggest strategies for advancing
cultural rights during the next decade (A/HRC/40/53).
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