A/HRC/43/37 I. Introduction 1. The present report is presented to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 38/18. After a series of resolutions on the role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights,1 it was decided, in resolution 38/18, to convene two intersessional seminars with States and other relevant stakeholders on the contribution that the Human Rights Council could make to the prevention of human rights violations. The Council also requested its President to appoint a chair-rapporteur and two rapporteurs to chair and facilitate the two intersessional seminars in Geneva, and to consult and gather the views of relevant stakeholders in Geneva and New York, as well as to present a report to the Council at its forty-third session. On 18 October 2018, the President of the Council appointed Yvette Stevens as chair-rapporteur and Pablo de Greiff and Nils Muižnieks as rapporteurs. A. Scope of the mandate 2. In its resolution 38/18, the Council reaffirmed, in the preambular paragraphs, that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing. In the present report, the rapporteurs focus therefore on the prevention of violations of all human rights, whether they are civil and political, or economic, social and cultural. In addition, resolution 38/18 should be understood as referring to the need for prevention in diverse contexts, ranging from those in which violations are systematic (be they conflict situations or not) to those in which violations are more sporadic or yet to occur, but for which preventive measures are needed. 3. In the resolution, the Council further specified the institutional focus of the report, namely the role of the Council in the prevention of human rights violations and its capacity to respond to human rights emergencies. In resolution 38/18, the Council referred to General Assembly resolution 60/251, paragraph 5 (f), in which the Assembly outlined the mutually reinforcing elements of the preventive role of the Council, namely: to contribute, through dialogue and cooperation, towards the prevention of human rights violations and respond promptly to human rights emergencies. With this in mind, in resolution 38/18, the Council tasked the three rapporteurs with presenting proposals on how it could effectively contribute in the future to the prevention of human rights violations. 4. In resolution 38/18, the Council also requested that the rapporteurs give due consideration to how it can work effectively with all pillars of the United Nations system with a view to strengthening system-wide coherence and contributing to sustaining peace and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as to the availability in the United Nations system of financial resources for human rights promotion, and for prevention in particular. B. Methodology 5. Pursuant to their mandate, the three rapporteurs organized two intersessional seminars in Geneva. The first seminar, held on 9 and 10 April 2019, considered how the Council and its mechanisms had fulfilled their preventive mandate and how they could prevent human rights violations more effectively in the future. The second seminar, held on 8 October 2019, examined the interaction between the Council and the peace and security and the development pillars of the United Nations. It also considered the availability in the United Nations system of financial resources for the prevention of human rights violations. 6. The rapporteurs also consulted, as envisaged by the Council in its resolution 38/18, with the relevant stakeholders in Geneva and New York. In Geneva, the rapporteurs met with regional groups, States, the President of the Council, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and senior managers in her Office, the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, and civil society organizations. 1 2 Human Rights Council resolutions 14/5, 18/13, 24/16 and 33/6.