A/HRC/45/2
(a)
Representatives of States members of the Human Rights Council:
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso (on behalf of the Group of African States), India, Indonesia,
Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of);
(b)
Representatives of observer States: Chad, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran (Islamic
Republic of), Malaysia, Morocco, United Republic of Tanzania, State of Palestine;
(c)
Observer for an intergovernmental organization: European Union;
(d)
Observers for non-governmental organizations: Associazione Comunita Papa
Giovanni XXIII (also on behalf of Edmund Rice International Limited, International
Accountability Project, International Confederation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul,
International Movement of Apostolate in the Independent Social Milieus, International
Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education, International
Volunteerism Organization for Women, Education and Development, International Youth
and Student Movement for the United Nations, Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice
delle Salesiane di Don Bosco, New Humanity, Teresian Association, VIVAT International
and World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations), Beijing Children’s Legal Aid and
Research Center (by video message), Beijing Zhicheng Migrant Workers’ Legal and
Research Center (by video message), Center for Environmental and Management Studies
(by video message), China Family Planning Association (by video message), China
Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (by video message), International Human Rights
Association of American Minorities, Iuventum (by video message), Sikh Human Rights
Group, Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos (by video message).
199. At the same meeting, the Chair and members of the Expert Mechanism, Mihir
Kanade and Armando Antonio de Negri Filho, answered questions and made concluding
remarks (by video message).
D.
General debate on agenda item 3
200. At the 14th meeting, on 22 September 2020, the President of the Economic and
Social Council, Munir Akram, briefed the Human Rights Council on the discussions of the
high-level political forum, pursuant to Council resolution 37/25.
201. At the same meeting, the Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty
Mechanisms Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented
the reports of the Secretary-General (A/HRC/45/20, A/HRC/45/30, A/HRC/45/42 and
A/HRC/45/43), the reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(A/HRC/45/19, A/HRC/45/22, A/HRC/45/27 and A/HRC/45/4), the consolidated report of
the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner (A/HRC/45/21) and the report of
OHCHR (A/HRC/45/24) under agenda items 3 and 8.
202. At the same meeting, the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working group on the right
to development, Zamir Akram, updated the Human Rights Council on the inter-sessional
activities of the Working Group. The Council had before it the note by the Secretariat on
the report of the Working Group on its twenty-first session, which was to be held from 4 to
8 May 2020, but was postponed due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
(A/HRC/45/17).
203. Also at the same meeting, the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open-ended
intergovernmental working group to elaborate the content of an international regulatory
framework on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the activities of private military
and security companies, Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, presented to the Council the note
by the Secretariat on the report of the intergovernmental working group on its second
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