A/HRC/24/55 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 July 2013 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-fourth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Report of the twentieth annual meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Vienna, 24-28 June 2013) Note by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Rapporteur: Olivier de Frouville Summary In its resolution 2004/76 (para. 10 (a)) the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to organize periodic meetings among the special procedures. The twentieth annual meeting of special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council was held in Vienna from 24 to 28 June 2013 in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which had firmly anchored the system of special procedures in the international human rights protection system. The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyani, was elected as Chairperson of the meeting and the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures. The Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Olivier de Frouville, was elected Rapporteur and member of the Coordination Committee. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Sheila Keetharuth; the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana; and the Chairperson of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, Frances Raday, were endorsed as members of the Committee. Farida Shaheed, a former Chairperson, remains an ex officio member for the coming year. Mandate holders exchanged views with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Human Rights Council. Meetings with a number of stakeholders were held, including with representatives of European human rights GE.13-15682