A/HRC/42/1
Agenda of the session
3.
The agenda of the Human Rights Council is contained in section V of the annex to
Council resolution 5/1. The Council will have before it the present annotations relating to
items included in the agenda for the forty-second session.
Composition of the Human Rights Council
4.
The composition of the Human Rights Council at its forty-second session is as
follows:1 Afghanistan (2020); Angola (2020); Argentina (2021); Australia (2020); Austria
(2021); Bahamas (2021); Bahrain (2021); Bangladesh (2021); Brazil (2019); Bulgaria
(2021); Burkina Faso (2021); Cameroon (2021); Chile (2020); China (2019); Croatia
(2019); Cuba (2019); Czechia (2021); Democratic Republic of the Congo (2020); Denmark
(2021); Egypt (2019); Eritrea (2021); Fiji (2021); Hungary (2019); Iceland (2019); India
(2021); Iraq (2019); Italy (2021); Japan (2019); Mexico (2020); Nepal (2020); Nigeria
(2020); Pakistan (2020); Peru (2020); Philippines (2021); Qatar (2020); Rwanda (2019);
Saudi Arabia (2019); Senegal (2020); Slovakia (2020); Somalia (2021); South Africa
(2019); Spain (2020); Togo (2021); Tunisia (2019); Ukraine (2020); United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2019); and Uruguay (2021).
Bureau of the Human Rights Council
5.
At its organizational session held on 3 December 2018, and its organizational
meeting held on 15 January 2019, the Human Rights Council elected the following
members of the Bureau for its thirteenth cycle, from 1 January to 31 December 2019:
President
Coly Seck (Senegal)
Vice-Presidents
Harald Aspelund (Iceland)
Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji)
Carlos Mario Foradori (Argentina)
Vice-President and Rapporteur
Vesna Batistić Kos (Croatia)
Selection and appointment of mandate holders
6.
In accordance with paragraph 47 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution
5/1 and the requirements set out in Council decision 6/102, the consultative group for the
period from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 is composed of Kadra Ahmed Hassan
(Djibouti), Alejandro Dávalos (Ecuador), Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi (Iraq), Oxana
Domenti (Republic of Moldova) and Ernesto Massimo Bellelli (Italy). The Group will
propose to the President of the Council a list of candidates for the mandate of the
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Central African Republic.
7.
In accordance with the procedure stipulated in paragraphs 52 and 53 of the annex to
Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, the appointment of special procedure mandate
holders will be completed upon the subsequent approval by the Council. The mandate
holders in question will be appointed before the end of the forty-second session.
Election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
8.
At its seventh session, the Human Rights Council conducted the first elections of the
18 members of the Advisory Committee. Four members were elected for a one-year term,
seven for a two-year term and seven for a three-year term.
9.
Pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 18/121, the term of office of seven
members of the Advisory Committee will end on 30 September 2019.
10.
At its forty-second session, the Human Rights Council will elect Advisory
Committee members for seven vacant seats: two for the Group of African States, one for
the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, one for the Group of Western European
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The term of membership of each State expires at the end of the year indicated in parentheses.
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