Summary

The Working Group expresses its strong objection to the decision of the United Nations Secretariat not to grant a waiver to the 10,700 word limit to the present report, as has been the case for almost every year since such a limit was imposed by the General Assembly in 1993.

Human Rights Council
Nineteenth session
Agenda item 6
Universal Periodic Review

Introduction

Human Rights Council
MORNING
23 September 2011

Continues General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention

The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan and Hungary. It also continued its general debate on human rights situations that require the Council’s Attention.

Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural,
including the right to development

Summary

Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Independent Expert on the Sudan

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on human rights situations that require the Council's attention. It also concluded its interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the Sudan.

Mohamed Chande Othman, Independent Expert on the Sudan, in his concluding remarks, said that it was important for the Council to take into account the incompleteness of the nature of human

13 septembre 2010

Le Conseil des droits de l'homme a ouvert, ce matin, les travaux de sa quinzième session, qui se tient au Palais des Nations jusqu'au 1er octobre. Cette première réunion était consacrée à un débat général sur le bilan des activités du Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l'homme et au compte-rendu dressé par la Haut-Commissaire, Mme Navi Pillay, ainsi qu'à la question du réexamen des activités et du fonctionnement du Conseil des droits de l'homme.

Dans son compte-rendu, Mme Pillay a évoqué

Fourteenth session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

I. Introduction

1. This report examines the widespread, but under-studied, phenomenon of electionrelated killings. It draws upon the Special Rapporteur's extensive first-hand experience investigating and reporting on killings around the world, as well as upon extensive research undertaken specifically for this purpose.

2. Election-related killings violate

"I deeply regret that the Government has deprived me of the possibility to objectively assess the situation of torture and ill-treatment through gathering on the spot evidence from all available sources, including governmental and non-governmental sources,

"This mission is a positive sign of the Government of Zimbabwe's willingness to engage with the UN Human Rights System and permit open and unfettered access to places of detention," Nowak said.