A/HRC/40/48 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Organization of the session ........................................................................................................... 3 A. Election of the Chair-Rapporteur .......................................................................................... 3 B. Attendance ............................................................................................................................ 3 C. Documentation ...................................................................................................................... 3 D. Adoption of the agenda and programme of work ................................................................. 4 Opening statements ....................................................................................................................... 4 A. Keynote speech ..................................................................................................................... 4 B. General statements ................................................................................................................ 4 C. General introduction to the draft legally binding instrument ................................................ 7 First reading of the draft legally binding instrument ..................................................................... 7 A. Articles 2 and 8 ..................................................................................................................... 7 B. Articles 6, 7 and 13 ............................................................................................................... 9 C. Article 9 ................................................................................................................................ 10 D. Articles 10, 11 and 12 ........................................................................................................... 12 E. Articles 3 and 4 ..................................................................................................................... 13 F. Article 5 ................................................................................................................................ 14 G. Articles 1, 14 and 15 ............................................................................................................. 15 V. Presentation of the draft optional protocol .................................................................................... 17 VI. Panel: “The voices of victims” ...................................................................................................... 17 VII. Recommendations of the Chair-Rapporteur and conclusions of the working group ..................... 18 A. Recommendations of the Chair-Rapporteur ......................................................................... 18 B. Conclusions of the working group ........................................................................................ 18 Adoption of the report ................................................................................................................... 19 I. List of participants......................................................................................................................... 20 II. List of panellists ............................................................................................................................ 22 III. Summary of statements by panellists ............................................................................................ 24 III. IV. VIII. Annexes 2