A/HRC/43/64/Add.1
Follow-up activities undertaken by mandate holders (non-exhaustive list) (2019)
Special Rapporteur on the promotion Follow-up report to the mandate’s past country visits to Cote d’Ivoire,
and protection of the right to
Honduras, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Japan and Turkey
freedom of opinion and expression
(A/HRC/41/35/Add.2).
Report of the Special Rapporteur to the General Assembly on online hate
speech (A/74/486), which follows the report from the previous mandate
holder on hate speech and incitement to hatred (A/67/357).
Special Rapporteur on the human
rights to safe drinking water and
sanitation
Follow-up reports on the visits to Tajikistan (A/HRC/42/47/Add.6), Portugal
(A/HRC/42/47/Add.3), El Salvador (A/HRC/42/47/Add.4), and Botswana
A/HRC/42/47/Add.5).
Working Group on Enforced or
Involuntary Disappearances
Follow-up report on the visits to Peru and Sri Lanka (A/HRC/42/40/Add.1).
Special Rapporteur on the sale and
sexual exploitation of children,
including child prostitution, child
pornography and other child sexual
abuse material
Report on Safeguards for the protection of the rights of children born from
surrogacy arrangements (A/74/162) which followed-up on the report on
Surrogacy and the sale of children presented in 2018 (A/HRC/37/60).
D.
Other follow-up activities
Working Group on the use of
mercenaries as a means of violating
human rights and impeding the
exercise of the right of peoples to
self-determination
Follow-up regarding implementation of recommendations made in A/74/244
(2019) on the gendered human rights impacts of private military and
security companies and on A/69/338 (2014) on the use by the United
Nations of private security companies: on 19 December 2019, the Working
Group sent a letter to Mr. Gilles Michaud, Under Secretary General for
Safety and Security at the United Nations, regarding the role that the United
Nations can play to private security companies which it contracts strengthen
gender integration in all aspects of their operations.
Special Rapporteur on contemporary On 13 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of
slavery, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of migrants and the Special
forms of slavery, including its
Rapporteur on the right to housing issued a Press Release to express concern
causes and consequences
over the forced eviction of an informal settlement populated by migrants in
Calabria, Italy. The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery
visited the settlement considered during a country visit to Italy undertaken in
October 2018.
Special Rapporteur on the sale and
sexual exploitation of children,
including child prostitution, child
pornography and other child sexual
abuse material
On 29 November, the Special Rapporteur delivered a key note address and
participated in a round table at the Irish Centre for human rights, with
particular focus on her findings and recommendations following her country
visit to Ireland in March 2018 and related recent developments. She
subsequently had a courtesy meeting with the President of Ireland.
In December 2019, the Special Rapporteur issued a press release as a follow
up to a communication sent to the Holy See in February 2019, concerning
the allegation of ongoing and historical clerical sexual abuse of children,
including the alleged cover-up attempts by the members of the Catholic
church hierarchy. The press release welcomed the announcement of the
Vatican to abolish the high level of secrecy it has applied to sexual-abuse
accusations against clerics, ending a policy that critics said had often
shielded priests from criminal punishment by the secular authorities, and
called on the Church to take concrete measures to launch prompt and
thorough investigations, provide justice and redress to victims worldwide,
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