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Agenda of the session
3.
The agenda of the Human Rights Council is contained in section V of the annex to
Council resolution 5/1. The Council will have before it the present annotations relating to
items included in the agenda for the forty-third session.
Composition of the Human Rights Council
4.
The composition of the Human Rights Council at its forty-third session is as
follows:1 Afghanistan (2020); Angola (2020); Argentina (2021); Armenia (2022); Australia
(2020); Austria (2021); Bahamas (2021); Bahrain (2021); Bangladesh (2021); Brazil
(2022); Bulgaria (2021); Burkina Faso (2021); Cameroon (2021); Chile (2020); Czechia
(2021); Democratic Republic of the Congo (2020); Denmark (2021); Eritrea (2021); Fiji
(2021); Germany (2022); India (2021); Indonesia (2022); Italy (2021); Japan (2022); Libya
(2022); Marshall Islands (2022); Mauritania (2022); Mexico (2020); Namibia (2022);
Nepal (2020); Netherlands (2022); Nigeria (2020); Pakistan (2020); Peru (2020);
Philippines (2021); Poland (2022); Qatar (2020); Republic of Korea (2022); Senegal
(2020); Slovakia (2020); Somalia (2021); Spain (2020); Sudan (2022); Togo (2021);
Ukraine (2020); Uruguay (2021); and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2022).
Bureau of the Human Rights Council
5.
At its organizational session, held on 6 December 2019, the Human Rights Council
elected the following members of the Bureau for its fourteenth cycle, which will run from 1
January to 31 December 2020:
President
Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger (Austria)
Vice-Presidents
Nasir Ahmad Andisha (Afghanistan)
Socorro Flores Liera (Mexico)
Juraj Podhorský (Slovakia)
Vice-President and Rapporteur
Yackoley Kokou Johnson (Togo)
Review of the work and functioning of the Human Rights Council
6.
Pursuant to paragraph 42 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21,
the Council will hold a panel discussion to interact with heads of governing bodies and
secretariats of United Nations agencies within their respective mandates on specific human
rights themes with the objective of promoting the mainstreaming of human rights
throughout the United Nations system.
7.
Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 40/15 and the related decision taken at
its forty-second session, the theme of the 2020 high-level panel discussion will be “Thirty
years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and
opportunities” (see para. 58 below and annex).
Selection and appointment of mandate holders
8.
In accordance with paragraph 47 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution
5/1, paragraph 22 of the annex to Council resolution 16/21 and the requirements set out in
Council decision 6/102, the Consultative Group for the period from 1 April 2019 to 31
March 2020 is composed of Kadra Ahmed Hassan (Djibouti), Abbas Kadhom Obaid AlFatlawi (Iraq), Oxana Domenti (Republic of Moldova), Alejandro Dávalos (Ecuador) and
Ernesto Massimo Bellelli (Italy). The Group will propose to the President of the Council a
list of candidates for: (a) five members of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to
Development (one each from African States, Asia-Pacific States, Eastern European States,
Latin American and Caribbean States and Western European and other States); (b) two
members of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (one from Asia and
one from the Arctic); (c) the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other
related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human
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