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Monday, March 3
 

10:45am CET

Presentation of reports and oral updates followed by general debate under agenda item 2
Monday March 3, 2025 10:45am - 12:30pm CET
Item 2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Activities of the offices in Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia

A/RES/48/141

A/HRC/58/22 - Guatemala
A/HRC/58/23 - Honduras
A/HRC/58/24 - Colombia

Conclusions and recommendations of special procedures

A/HRC/58/20 - Report of the Secretary General

Question of human rights in Cyprus

Human Rights Council decision 2/102
A/HRC/58/21

Effective implementation of international human rights instruments

A/HRC/58/25 - Measures taken to implement Human Rights Council resolution 9/8 and obstacles to its implementation, including recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of, harmonizing and reforming the treaty body system - Report of the Secretary-General

Promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua

A/HRC/RES/52/2
Oral update by the High Commissioner

Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka

A/HRC/RES/51/1
Oral update by the High Commissioner

NGO written statements

A/HRC/58/NGO/6
A/HRC/58/NGO/24
A/HRC/58/NGO/42
A/HRC/58/NGO/59
A/HRC/58/NGO/66
A/HRC/58/NGO/86
A/HRC/58/NGO/141
A/HRC/58/NGO/147
A/HRC/58/NGO/157
A/HRC/58/NGO/172
A/HRC/58/NGO/177
A/HRC/58/NGO/182
A/HRC/58/NGO/187
A/HRC/58/NGO/193

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Monday March 3, 2025 10:45am - 12:30pm CET
Room XX

2:30pm CET

General debate on ITEM 2 (continued)
Monday March 3, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General


For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Speakers
avatar for Volker Türk

Volker Türk

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Monday March 3, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Tuesday, March 4
 

9:30am CET

General debate on ITEM 2 (continued)
Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:30am - 11:30am CET
Item 2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Speakers
avatar for Volker Türk

Volker Türk

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Tuesday March 4, 2025 9:30am - 11:30am CET
Room XX
 
Friday, March 14
 

4:00pm CET

Presentation of SG/HC thematic reports and the IGWG on TNCs followed by general debate under agenda item 3
Friday March 14, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

A/HRC/58/46 Report on the tenth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights
A/HRC/58/43 Human rights dimension of care and support - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/42 Expert seminar on the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights in anti-corruption efforts in the context of recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/41 Impact of arms transfers on human rights - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/39 - Comprehensive study on the use of digital technologies to achieve universal birth registration - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/38 Mental health and human rights - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/37 Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights - Report of the Secretary-General
A/HRC/58/36 Human rights and transitional justice - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/34 Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
A/HRC/58/32 Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - Report of the Secretary-General
A/HRC/58/31 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture - Report of the Secretary-General
A/HRC/58/30 Report of the Secretary-General on missing persons - Note by the Secretariat
A/HRC/58/25 Measures taken to implement Human Rights Council resolution 9/8 and obstacles to its implementation, including recommendations for further improving the effectiveness of, harmonizing and reforming the treaty body system - Report of the Secretary-General

National Human Rights Institutions' written statements

A/HRC/58/NI/2 - Written statement by the National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea, Defensoría del Pueblo of Colombia, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, the Finnish National Human Rights Institution, the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia, the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights, the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia, the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria, the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland, the Protector of Citizens of Serbia, the Human Rights Ombudsman of Slovenia, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, the Provedoria for Human Rights and Justice of Timor-Leste and the Human Rights Commission of Zambia

A/HRC/58/NI/3 - Declaración escrita por la Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Friday March 14, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Monday, March 17
 

9:30am CET

General debate on agenda item 3 (continued)
Monday March 17, 2025 9:30am - 12:30pm CET
Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development -

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Monday March 17, 2025 9:30am - 12:30pm CET
Room XX

2:30pm CET

General debate on agenda item 3 (continued)
Monday March 17, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development -

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Monday March 17, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Thursday, March 20
 

9:30am CET

Presentation of HC report on DPRK and oral update on Venezuela followed by general debate under agenda item 4
Thursday March 20, 2025 9:30am - 12:30pm CET
Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

A/HRC/RES/52/28, A/HRC/RES/55/21

Report of the High Commissioner (A/HRC/58/61)

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Thursday March 20, 2025 9:30am - 12:30pm CET
Room XX

2:30pm CET

General debate on agenda item 4 (continued)
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Thursday March 20, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Friday, March 21
 

9:30am CET

General debate on agenda item 4 (continued)
Friday March 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CET
Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Friday March 21, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CET
Room XX

2:30pm CET

Presentation of reports of Social Forum, Forum on Minority Issues and annual reports of Special Procedures followed by general debate under agenda item 5
Friday March 21, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 4: Human rights bodies and mechanisms

Forum on Minority Issues

A/HRC/RES/19/23

Report of the mandate holder A/HRC/58/69 - Recommendations of the Forum on Minority Issues at its seventeenth session on the theme “Minority representation and self-representation in public spaces and discourses” - Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues

Special procedures

A/HRC/RES/2/102

Reports of the annual meeting of special rapporteurs A/HRC/58/70 and A/HRC/58/70/Add.1
Communications report of the special procedures A/HRC/58/3

Social Forum

A/HRC/RES/53/20

Report of the Forum A/HRC/58/71

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Friday March 21, 2025 2:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Wednesday, March 26
 

11:30am CET

Presentation of HC/SG reports followed by General debate under agenda item 7
Wednesday March 26, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm CET
Item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories

Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan

A/HRC/RES/55/31

Report of the Secretary-General A/HRC/58/72

Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan

A/HRC/RES/55/32

Report of the High Commissioner A/HRC/58/73

Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Commission on Human Rights resolution

GA RES1993/2 and A/HRC/RES/5/1

Report of the mandate holder A/HRC/58/74 during an ID

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Wednesday March 26, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm CET
Room XX

2:30pm CET

General debate under agenda item 7 (continued)
Wednesday March 26, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm CET
Item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Wednesday March 26, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm CET
Room XX

3:30pm CET

Item 8: General debate
Wednesday March 26, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 8: Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

No reports have been submitted under agenda item 8.

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 2 p.m. and closes 24 hours before the meeting in which the respective debate is scheduled to start. In exceptional cases, after the online inscription has closed, delegations may still inscribe or withdraw by either approaching the list of speakers desk in room XX or sending an email to ohchr-hrclistofspeakers@un.org.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.

Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.

The lists of speakers will be made available on the HRC Extranet the day before the debate or dialogue is scheduled to start and will be updated live.
Wednesday March 26, 2025 3:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Thursday, March 27
 

9:30am CET

Item 8: General debate (continued)
Thursday March 27, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CET
Item 8: Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

No reports have been submitted under agenda item 8.

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Thursday March 27, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CET
Room XX

10:30am CET

Presentation of reports of IGWG on DDPA, followed by General debate under agenda item 9
Thursday March 27, 2025 10:30am - 12:30pm CET
Item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

A/HRC/RES/52/37

A/HRC/58/75 - Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action on its twenty-second session - Note by the Secretariat

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

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Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Thursday March 27, 2025 10:30am - 12:30pm CET
Room XX

4:30pm CET

General debate under agenda item 9 (continued)
Thursday March 27, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Thursday March 27, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm CET
Room XX
 
Friday, March 28
 

9:30am CET

General debate under agenda item 9 (continued)
Friday March 28, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CET
Item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Friday March 28, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CET
Room XX
 
Tuesday, April 1
 

5:00pm CEST

Presentation of reports on technical cooperation and oral update on Georgia followed by general debate under agenda item 10
Tuesday April 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CEST
Item 10: Technical assistance and capacity-building


Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights

A/HRC/RES/36/28

Oral presentation by the High Commissioner

Chair VFTC A/HRC/58/78

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Tuesday April 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CEST
Room XX
 
Wednesday, April 2
 

10:00am CEST

General debate under agenda item 10 (continued)
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm CEST
Item 10: Technical assistance and capacity-building

For all General Debates, the online inscription for the lists of speakers for States opens on Monday, 17 February, at 4 p.m.

NHRIs and NGOS are also requested to inscribe online through their respective systems (https://ngoreg.ohchr.org for NGOS). For additional information on modalities and deadlines: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/ngo-nhri-info.
Speaking time is 2.5 minutes for States and 1.5 minutes for observer States and other observers. Please also refer to announcements made in Room XX, and through Sched and SMS alert.
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:00am - 12:00pm CEST
Room XX
 
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