A/HRC/39/1
The Council will consider the report of the mandate holder, Léo Heller (A/HRC/39/55 and
Add.1–2).
Environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes
46.
In its resolution 36/15, the Human Rights Council decided to extend the mandate of
the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound
management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes for a period of three years,
and invited him to report to the Council in accordance with its programme of work. The
Council will consider the report of the mandate holder, Baskut Tuncak (A/HRC/39/48 and
Add.1–2).
Civil and political rights
Question of the death penalty
47.
In its decision 18/117, the Human Rights Council requested the Secretary-General to
continue to submit a yearly supplement to his quinquennial report on capital punishment
and the implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those
facing the death penalty, paying special attention to the imposition of the death penalty on
persons younger than 18 years of age at the time of the offence, on pregnant women and on
persons with mental or intellectual disabilities. The Council will consider the report of the
Secretary-General (A/HRC/39/19) (see also para. 19 above).
Prevention of genocide
48.
Pursuant to its resolution 37/26, the Human Rights Council will hold a high-level
panel discussion to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (see annex).
49.
Pursuant to the same resolution, the Human Rights Council will also hold an
interactive dialogue with the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of
Genocide.
The right to privacy in the digital age
50.
In its resolution 34/7, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner
to organize, before the thirty-seventh session of the Council, an expert workshop with the
purpose of identifying and clarifying principles, standards and best practices regarding the
promotion and protection of the right to privacy in the digital age, including the
responsibility of business enterprises in that regard, to prepare a report thereon and to
submit it to the Council at its thirty-ninth session. The Council will consider the report of
the High Commissioner on the expert workshop, held from 19 to 20 February 2018
(A/HRC/39/29) (see para. 20 above).
Equal participation in political and public affairs
51.
In its resolution 33/22, the Human Rights Council requested OHCHR to prepare
concise and action-oriented draft guidelines as a set of orientations for States on the
effective implementation of the right to participate in public affairs, as set out in article 25
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and as further elaborated on in
other relevant provisions under international human rights law, and to present the draft
guidelines to the Council at its thirty-ninth session in order to allow the Council to take a
decision on the way forward. The Council will consider the report of OHCHR
(A/HRC/39/28) (see para. 21 above).
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before
the law
52.
In its resolution 34/15, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner
to prepare a report on best practices and specific measures to ensure access to birth
registration, particularly for those children most at risk, marginalized and living in
situations of conflict, poverty, emergency and vulnerability, including children belonging to
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