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 7

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