The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will hold its sixty-third regular session from 7 September to 7 October 2026 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

During the session, the Council will hold 37 interactive dialogues with Special Procedures mandate holders, expert mechanisms and investigative mechanisms, and on reports and updates of the High Commissioner, his Office and the Secretary-General. It will hear an oral update by the High Commissioner on El Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan under agenda item two and interactive dialogues with the High Commissioner on Haiti and Ukraine under agenda item 10. It will also hold enhanced interactive dialogues on the reports of the High Commissioner and the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar under agenda item two; and with the High Commissioner and the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement under agenda item nine, and on the report of the High Commissioner on the Democratic Republic of the Congo under agenda item 10.

During the session, the Council will hold six panel discussions on promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights within the context of addressing inequalities; the fortieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development; the fifteenth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training; the sixtieth anniversary of the International Covenants on Human Rights; the rights of Indigenous Peoples; and the integration of a gender perspective throughout its works and that of its mechanisms. It will additionally hear presentations of country and thematic reports of the United Nations Secretary-General, including his report on actionable pathways in mobilising sufficient climate financing and his report on reprisals against those who cooperate with the United Nations.

Reports and oral updates will be presented on the human rights situations in Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan and the Syrian Arab Republic under item two; Belarus, Burundi, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicaragua, the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Ukraine under agenda item four; and on Haiti, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Marshall Islands, Somalia, Cambodia and Yemen under agenda item 10. At the end of the session, the Council will appoint two mandate holders of Special Procedures, and elect five members to different Working Groups and seven members of its Advisory Committee. The final outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review of 15 States will also be considered, namely those of Namibia, Niger, Mozambique, Estonia, Paraguay, Belgium, Denmark, Palau, Somalia, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Latvia, Sierra Leone, Singapore and Nicaragua. Reports to be presented are available here. All meetings are broadcast on UN Web TV.

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Human Rights Council to Hold its Sixty-Third Regular Session from 7 September to 7 October 2026

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