The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-third regular session from 24 February to 20 March 2020 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The session will address specific issues under the attention of the HRC and the Council will review over 100 reports on a wide range of human rights issues and situations of concern and will engage with nearly 30 human rights experts, groups and mechanisms. More specifically the Council will focus on human rights protection issues in Palestine, Eritrea, Myanmar, DPRK, South Sudan, Syria, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Iran, Cyprus, Guatemala, Libya, DRC, Venezuela, Mali, Ukraine, Burundi, Afghanistan and CAR, as well as issues related to the right to food, right to privacy in digital era, terrorism, rights of people with disabilities, human rights defenders protection, protection of women and children rights.
In addition the Council will consider and adopt the final outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of 14 States (Italy, El Salvador, Gambia, Bolivia, Fiji, San Marino, Kazakhstan, Angola, Iran, Madagascar, Iraq, Slovenia, Egypt and Bosnia and Herzegovina).
The composition of the Human Rights Council at its forty-third session is as follows: Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Eritrea, Fiji, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Libya, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Senegal, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Togo, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela.
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