UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/9/22 13 August 2008 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Ninth session Agenda item 3 PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Report of the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights, Okechukwu Ibeanu* Summary This report summarizes the activities of the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights since his last report to the Human Rights Council submitted on 18 February 2008 (A/HRC/7/21). The report also focuses particularly on the Special Rapporteur’s participation at the ninth Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal from 23 to 27 June 2008 in Bali, Indonesia. In view of the review that the Council will conduct at its ninth session of the mandate on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights, the report also outlines some challenges that the Special Rapporteur has faced in the discharge of his mandate and provides some proposals to enhance the mandate for the consideration of the Human Rights Council. * The present report was submitted late in order to reflect the most recent information. GE.08-15056 (E) 180808