A/HRC/40/18
11.
Emerging issues such as the impact of new technologies on human rights were
addressed in the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom of opinion and expression on artificial intelligence and on encryption and
anonymity, the report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy on big data and open
data, the report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the contemporary use of digital
technology in the spread of neo-Nazi and related intolerance and the report of the Special
Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, on online violence
against women.
I. Thirty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council
12.
At the thirty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council, the following 19 special
procedure mandate holders, including the holders of 15 thematic and 4 country mandates,
presented their annual reports:
• Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
• Special Rapporteur on the right to food
• Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the
enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
• Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate
standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
• Special Rapporteur on minority issues
• Special Rapporteur on torture
• Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
• Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
• Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international
financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly
economic, social and cultural rights
• Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
• Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
• Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of
non-recurrence
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories
occupied since 1967
13.
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea participated in the
enhanced interactive dialogue on Eritrea, and the Independent Expert on the situation of
human rights in the Central African Republic participated in the high-level interactive
dialogue on the Central African Republic.
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