A/HRC/43/1
Special procedures
87.
Pursuant to its decision 2/102, the Human Rights Council will have before it the
report on the twenty-sixth annual meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives,
independent experts and working groups of the special procedures of the Council, held
from 17 to 21 June 2019 (A/HRC/43/64).
88.
The Human Rights Council will also consider the communications report of the
special procedures (A/HRC/43/77).
6.
Universal periodic review
89.
In its resolution 5/1, the Human Rights Council established the universal periodic
review mechanism as contained in section I of the annex to that resolution. The Working
Group on the Universal Periodic Review held its thirty-fourth session from 4 to 15
November 2019. At its forty-third session, the Council will consider and adopt the final
outcomes of the review of Italy (A/HRC/43/4), El Salvador (A/HRC/43/5), the Gambia
(A/HRC/43/6), the Plurinational State of Bolivia (A/HRC/43/7), Fiji (A/HRC/43/8), San
Marino (A/HRC/43/9), Kazakhstan (A/HRC/43/10), Angola (A/HRC/43/11), the Islamic
Republic of Iran (A/HRC/43/12), Madagascar (A/HRC/43/13), Iraq (A/HRC/43/14),
Slovenia (A/HRC/43/15), Egypt (A/HRC/43/16) and Bosnia and Herzegovina
(A/HRC/43/17).
90.
Pursuant to President’s statement 9/2 on modalities and practices for the universal
periodic review process, the outcomes of the review are adopted by the Council at its
plenary session by a standardized decision. The outcomes comprise the reports of the
Working Group, the views of the State under review concerning the recommendations
and/or conclusions, and the voluntary commitments made and replies presented by the State
under review, before the adoption of the outcome by the Council in plenary, to questions or
issues that were not sufficiently addressed during the interactive dialogue in the Working
Group.
7.
Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
91.
Reference is made to the report of the High Commissioner on the implementation of
the recommendations contained in the report of the independent international commission
of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (A/HRC/43/21) (see para.
32 above).
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in
the occupied Syrian Golan
92.
Pursuant to its resolution 40/24, the Human Rights Council will consider the report
of the High Commissioner on the implementation of the provisions of that resolution
(A/HRC/43/67) (see para. 33 above).
93.
Pursuant to its resolution 31/36, the Human Rights Council requested the High
Commissioner to produce a database of all business enterprises involved in the activities
detailed in paragraph 96 of the report of the independent international fact-finding mission
to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic,
social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian
Territory, including East Jerusalem (A/HRC/22/63). The Council also requested the High
Commissioner to transmit the data therein in the form of a report to the Council at its thirtyfourth session (A/HRC/43/71) (see para. 34 above).
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