Distr. GENERAL E/CN.4/1999/167, E/1999/23 20 July 1999 Original: ENGLISH

	Chapter	Paragraphs
	III. ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK OF THE SESSION	1 - 51
	A. Opening and duration of the session	1 - 2
	B. Attendance	3
	C. Election of officers	4
	D. Agenda	5 - 6
	E. Organization of work	7 - 37
	F. Meetings, resolutions and documentation	38 - 42
	G. Visits	43 - 44
	H. Other matters	45 - 46
	I. Organization of the work of the fifty-sixth session of the Commission	47 - 50
	J. Concluding remarks	51
	IV. REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FOLLOW-UP TO THE WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS	52 - 60
	V. THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO PEOPLES UNDER COLONIAL OR ALIEN DOMINATION OR FOREIGN OCCUPATION	61 - 75
	VI. RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION	76 - 102
	VII. THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT	103 - 110
	VIII. QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE	111 - 130
	IX. QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING:	131 - 251
	(a) Question of human rights in Cyprus;
	(b) Procedure established in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1503 (XLVIII)
	X. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS	252 - 291
	XI. CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF:	292 - 347
	(a) Torture and detention;
	(b) Disappearances and summary executions;
	(c) Freedom of expression;
	(d) Independence of the judiciary, administration of justice, impunity;
	(e) Religious intolerance;
	(f) States of emergency;
	(g) Conscientious objection to military service
	XII. INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE:	348 - 364
	(a) Violence against women
	XIII. RIGHTS OF THE CHILD	365 - 384
	XIV. SPECIFIC GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS:	385 - 412
	(a) Migrant workers;
	(b) Minorities;
	(c) Mass exoduses and displaced persons;
	(d) Other vulnerable groups and individuals
	XV. INDIGENOUS ISSUES	413 - 433
	XVI. REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMISSION ON PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES:	434 - 450
	(a) Report and draft decisions;
	(b) Election of members
	XVII. PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS:	451 - 505
	(a) Status of the international covenants on human rights;
	(b) Human rights defenders;
	(c) Information and education;
	(d) Science and environment
	XVIII. EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS:	506 - 522
	(a) Treaty bodies;
	(b) National institutions and regional arrangements;
	(c) Adaptation and strengthening of the United Nations machinery for human rights
	XIX. ADVISORY SERVICES AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS	523 - 547
	XX. RATIONALIZATION OF THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION	548 - 554
	XXI. (a) DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR THE FIFTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION	555 - 557
	(b) REPORT TO THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ON THE FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION	558
	Annexes
	I. Attendance 109
	II. Agenda 126
	III. General debate
	IV. Administrative and programme budget implications of resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission at its fifty-fifth session
	V. Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Commission and statements made by the Chairperson on behalf of the Commission at its fifty-fifth session
	VI. List of documents issued for the fifty-fifth session of the Commission

1. The Commission on Human Rights held its fifty-fifth session at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 22 March to 30 April 1999. It held 62 meetings (E/CN.4/1999/SR.1-62)1/ during the session.

2. The session was opened by Mr. Jacob S. Selebi, Chairman of the Commission at its fifty-fourth session, who made a statement.

3. The session was attended by representatives of States members of the Commission, by observers for other States Members of the United Nations, by observers for non-member States and by representatives of the specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations, national liberation movements and non-governmental organizations. An attendance list is given in annex I to the present report.

4. At its 1st meeting, on 22 March 1999, the Commission elected the following officers by acclamation:

Chairperson:

Ms. Anne Anderson (Ireland)

Vice-Chairmen:

Mr. Romans Baumanis (Latvia)

Mr. Luis Alberto Padilla Menéndez (Guatemala)

Mr. Shambhu Ram Simkhada (Nepal)

Rapporteur:

Mr. Raouf Chatty (Tunisia)

5. Also at its 1st meeting, the Commission had before it the provisional agenda of the fifty-fifth session (E/CN.4/1999/1 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1), drawn up, in accordance with rule 5 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, on the basis of the provisional agenda considered by the Commission at its fifty-fourth session in accordance with paragraph 3 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1894 (LVII) of 1 August 1974.

6. The agenda was adopted without a vote. For the text, see annex II to the present report.

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