HRC Special Sessions
The Human Rights Council shall hold special sessions, when needed, at the request of a member of the Council with the support of one third of the membership of the Council.
IDA monitors each special session of the Human Rights Council relevant to the rights of persons with disabilities.
Here below you can find information about the recent special session of the Human Rights Council as well as information related to relevant resolutions and decisions. For detailed information on past Human Rights Council special sessions, please click the link "View All Sessions" at the bottom of this page.
13th Special Session (January 2010)
The Human Rights Council held on 27-28 January 2010 a Special Session, on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010: a Human Rights Approach”.
The resolution adopted by the Council includes a reference to persons with disabilities (paragraph 4). IDA delivered a short statement and requested the Human Rights Council to include persons with disabilities in the resolution. To have access to this resolution, please click the links below: pdf version or word version
The Secretariat of the Human rights Council has published an advance unedited version of the report of the Human rights Council on its 13th special session.
