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Mandate
Description of events organized by mandate holders
with the participation of UNOG DCM and OHCHR teams producing reports in
accessible formats.
On 16 and 17 September 2019, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with
disabilities convened an expert meeting in Geneva on the topic of “Bioethics and
Disability”. The meeting gathered 24 experts from various regions and backgrounds,
including from academia, civil society, OHCHR and WHO, with a view to inform the
thematic report to the Human Rights Council in March 2020 (A/HRC/43/41).
Working Group on Enforced or On 20 May 2019, on the margins of its 118th session, the Working Group organized a
training session on forensic science to enhance its capacity to cooperate with States and
Involuntary Disappearances
families in the search for victims of enforced disappearance and investigations into
disappearances.
Special Rapporteur on the right On 7 and 8 May 2019, the Special Rapporteur held an experts meeting on “Education
and peace: the right to education and the prevention and reparation of atrocity crimes”.
to education
The meeting aimed at providing valuable insights related to the 2019 thematic report to
the General Assembly on this issue.
Special Rapporteur on the issue
of human rights obligations
relating to the enjoyment of a
safe, clean, healthy and
sustainable environment
On 20 and 21 June 2019, the Special Rapporteur organized an expert meeting on the
theme of experience and best practices of States at the national and regional levels with
regard to human rights obligations relating to the environment (as per resolution
A/HRC/RES/37/8).
The Special Rapporteur co-organized two regional workshops on advancing children’s
right to a healthy environment in May in Colombia (LAC region) and in October in
Indonesia (AP region) together with UNICEF, UNEP, Terre des Homme and so on.
In November 2019, the Special Rapporteur co-hosted five regional webinars on the role
of national human rights institutions in protecting the right to a safe, clean, healthy and
sustainable environment. Co-organized by the United Nations Development
Programme, UNEP, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Global
Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, these informative webinars also
identified many good practices.
Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions
The Special Rapporteur organized and participated in a number of side-events held
within the margins of the 41st regular session of the Human Rights Council (June 2019)
and the 74th session of the General Assembly (October 2019), focusing respectively on
the human rights inquiry she conducted into the unlawful death of Saudi journalist Mr.
Jamal Khashoggi and the right of foreign nationals to consular assistance, particularly
within the context of death penalty cases.
Special Rapporteur on the right In March 2019, the Special Rapporteur travelled to Rome to hold meetings with the
Committee on Food Security Bureau and Advisory Group Meeting and the Open Ended
to food
Working Group on Food Systems and Nutrition.
On the margins of the March 2019 Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur also
hosted a meeting with interested Member States and Geneva-based United Nations
agencies relevant to the right to food, featuring the Chair of the Committee on Food
Security, to discuss and raise awareness about the mandate’s ongoing Rome-based
activities and its efforts to mainstream human rights into food and nutrition policies.
Independent Expert on the
effects of foreign debt and other
related international financial
obligations of States on the full
enjoyment of all human rights,
particularly economic, social
and cultural rights
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On 1 March 2019, the Independent Expert participated in a side event on the Guiding
Principles on human rights impact assessment for economic reform policies
(A/HRC/40/57) organized in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Greece and
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Focusing on the Guiding Principles, which were developed at
the request of the Human Rights Council by the Independent Expert in consultation with
States and relevant stakeholders (A/HRC/RES/34/3 and A/HRC/RES/37/11), this side
event also further explored the need to enhance the capacity of States and other
stakeholders to assess the human rights impact of economic reform policies.
Practicalities, opportunities and challenges of human rights impact assessments in the
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