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Third Committee, 18th plenary meeting - General…

Third Committee, 18th plenary meeting - General Assembly, 79th session

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Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Committee.Social, Humanitarian & Cultural Committee.
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Promotion and protection of human rights

- Item 71; Implementation of human rights instruments

- Item 71(a); Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

- Item 71(b); Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives

- Item 71(c); Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

- Item 71(d) : Reports A/79/40  A/79/56  A/79/48  A/79/44  A/79/36  and A/79/-- (to be issued));

Note by the Secretary-Generals A/79/123  and A/79/292  ; Report of the Secretary-General A/79/336  (to be issued))

Introductory statements:

  • Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights 
  • Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, Director, Sustainable Development Unit
  • Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
  • Siobhán Mullally, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
  • Paula Gaviria Betancur, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons


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