Human Rights Council
Session 6
[September 10- 28, 2007]

General Information on the Sixth Session

The 6th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) took place September 10 – 28, in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Palais des Nations, and will reconvene for a week in December (10 – 14). Reporting on the first part of the sixth session follows, and details on the second part of this session are available below.

For a detailed look at the programme of work for the sixth session of the HRC, please click here. The programme of work for December is available here. Corresponding human rights reports prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are available here, in multiple languages.

Upon closing of the 6th Session, a Special Session on the Human Rights Situation in Myanmar was called for October 2nd. A WILPF Report on the issue is available here.

WILPF Participation in the Sixth Session

WILPF Thematic Reporting

• Racism: Follow-Up and Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action
• Report on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories
• Report on Children and Armed Conflict
• Report on Gender Integration in the HRC

WILPF Statements

• WILPF On the Human Rights Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• WILPF On Follow-Up to Durban
• WILPF On Gender Mainstreaming
• WILPF On the Right to Food

Outcomes of the HRC's Sixth Session

• WILPF Reporting on the Decisions adopted at the HRC Sixth Session
• Draft Report A/HRC/6/L.11 to the General Assembly on the first part of the HRC Sixth Session

Special Session Five

• WILPF Reporting On the Human Rights Situation in Myanmar

Additional Human Rights Developments

Other developments that came out of this session include a discussion on the schedule for the first few series of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Further Information on this is available from the OHCHR, including General Guidelines for NGO submission in the six official UN languages. NGO submissions to the UPR should be similar to Shadow Reports to the treaty bodies, but the OHCHR requests a five page limit on these reports.

Outside of the Palais des Nations, news of the HRC's work is spreading. The OHCHR recently made available a list of documents that they provided to the Fourth and Third Committees of the 62nd Session of the General Assembly. Peruse these documents here, to have a look at the formal UN documentation that comes out of the Human Rights Conferences WILPF follows.

Last updated Oct 19, 2007