A/HRC/32/25 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 30/8, the Human Rights Council decided to convene a panel discussion at its thirty-first session on the progress in and challenges of addressing human rights issues in the context of efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030, to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. The Council invited the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with States and stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders, national human rights institutions and civil society, with a view to ensuring their participation in the panel discussion. 2. Also in its resolution 30/8, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a summary report of the panel discussion and to submit it to the Council at its thirty-second session and invited the General Assembly to take the summary report into consideration ahead of and during the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS due to take place in June 2016. Pursuant to that request, the present report is intended to support the commitment to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and to contribute to the discussions at the high-level meeting. The panel discussion and the contribution of the Council were also highlighted in Assembly resolution 70/228 on modalities for organizing the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS. 3. The interactive panel discussion was chaired by the Vice-President of the Human Rights Council, Bertrand de Crombrugghe, and was moderated by the Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Pedro Afonso Comissário. The Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore, delivered an opening statement, after which a three-minute video entitled 15 Years of the AIDS Response 2000-20151 was screened. The Deputy Executive Director of Programme at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Luiz Loures, delivered a keynote address. The panellists were the Public Campaign Officer at the Indonesia AIDS Coalition, Ayu Oktariani; ,the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, of Ghana, Nana Oye Lithur; the Vice-President of Health Production and Innovation, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Ministry of Health of Brazil, and member of the High-level Panel on Access to Medicines, Jorge Bermudez; the Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Mark Dybul; and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dainius Pūras. 4. Following the panellists’ brief opening remarks, States, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and other observers were encouraged to intervene by asking questions, making comments, and sharing good practices and challenges as well as recommendations on the way forward. The panel discussion provided a platform for experts and representatives of the populations affected to review the progress that had been made in addressing human rights issues in the context of efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030, which included successes, best practices and lessons learned. 1 Produced by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). 3