25th session of the Human Rights Council
Geneva, 4 April 2014
The 25th session of the Human Rights Council took place from 3 to 28 March 2014. It was a busy four week session with a high level of attention to SOGI issues. The session started with the High Level Segment, followed by interactive dialogues with the High Commissioner and Special Procedures (including on torture, human rights defenders, freedom of religion, and cultural rights), and adoption of reports from the 17th UPR session (countries included Saudi Arabia, Senegal, China, Nigeria, Mexico, Mauritius, Jordan, Malaysia, Central African Republic, Monaco, Belize, Chad, Israel, Congo, and Malta). The session saw negotiation of a broad range of resolutions, renewal of Special Procedures mandates, and specific focus and awareness raising on SOGI issues through general debates, panels and side events.
Download our report of the session: HRC25 Report_ARC2014