27th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
8 September 2014 12:12 pm

The UN Human Rights Council will hold its 27th regular session from 8 to 26 September 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland.
FORUM-ASIA interventions, statements and events during this session will appear on this page.

Oral Statements

• Joint Statement at the Annual Discussion on Integration of a Gender Perspective (15 September 2014)
• Item 2&3 General Debate: Introduction of OHCHR report on the Human Rights Council panel discussion on the safety of journalists (16 September 2014)
• Item 8 General Debate: Follow Up and Implementation of Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA) (23 September 2014)
• Item 10 Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, Mr. Surya Subedi (24 September 2014)
• Item 2 & 10 General Debate: High Commissioner’s update on Sri Lanka (25 September 2014)

Written Statements

• Threatened, harassed and restricted: anti-disappearance campaigners in Sri Lanka 

Open Letters

• Council members should reject procedural tactics that foreclose substantive debate

FORUM-ASIA Side Events

• The Role of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation in Human Rights (18 September 2014, 12-13:30, Room XXIV, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Human Rights Defenders in Cambodia: A Call for Support (23 September 2014, 10-12:00, Room XXIV, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland)