Annual Reports
The Special Rapporteur is required by the Human Rights Council to present every year an annual report at one of its regular sessions. Currently the Special Rapporteur reports to the Council during its March session, in Geneva. The Special Rapporteur's annual reports normally include a focus on specific themes of particular relevance for the rights of minorities, as well as a description of the activities carried out during the year in the framework of the mandate. For further information on the thematic work of the Special Rapporteur please visit
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Documents.
Reports to the Human Rights Council
HRC/CHR session |
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HRC 40th session - 2019 | A/HRC/40/64 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Dr. Fernand de Varennes – Update on his thematic report on statelessness as a minority issue and the level of awareness-raising and visibility of minorities and their human rights | |
HRC 37th session - 2018 | A/HRC/37/66 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Dr. Fernand de Varennes – Priorities and vision of the mandate | |
HRC 34th session - 2017 | A/HRC/34/53 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye - Reflections on the six-year tenure of the Special Rapporteur | |
HRC 31st session - 2016 | A/HRC/31/56 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye - Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status | |
HRC 29th session - 2015 | A/HRC/29/24 | Comprehensive study of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák - The human rights situation of Roma worldwide, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of anti-Gypsyism |
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HRC 28th session - 2015 | A/HRC/28/64 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák - Hate speech and incitement to hatred against minorities in the media |
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HRC 25th session - 2014 | A/HRC/25/56 | Report of the Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák - Ensuring the inclusion of minority issues in post- 2015 development agendas | |
HRC 22th session - 2013 | A/HRC/22/49 | Report of the Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák - Rights of linguistic minorities | |
HRC 19th session - 2012 | A/HRC/19/56 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák - Priorities for the work of the Independent Expert and the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities |
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HRC 16th session - 2011 | A/HRC/16/45 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall - the role of minority rights protection in promoting stability and conflict prevention |
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HRC 13th session - 2010 | A/HRC/13/23 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall - Minorities and effective political participation: a survey of law and national practices | |
HRC 10th session - 2009 | A/HRC/10/11 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall - Cooperation with UN Bodies Mandate Mecanisms and Regional Organizations to promote the rights of minorities. |
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HRC 7th session - 2008 | A/HRC/7/23 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall – Minorities and the Discriminatory Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship |
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HRC 4th session - 2007 | A/HRC/4/9 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall – Minorities, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: Assessing Global Issues |
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CHR 62nd session - 2006 | E/CN.4/2006/74 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall |
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Reports to the General Assembly
GA session |
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Documents in official languages |
GA 74th session - 2019 | A/74/160 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Dr. Fernand de Varennes – Study on the concept of a minority | |
GA 73rd session - 2018 | A/73/205 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Dr. Fernand de Varennes – Statelessness a minority issue | |
GA 72nd session - 2017 | A/72/165 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues Rita Izsák-Ndiaye | |
GA 71st session - 2016 | A/71/254 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues Rita Izsák-Ndiaye Minorities in situations of humanitarian crises | |
GA 70th session - 2015 | A/70/212 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsak - Minorities in the criminal justice system |
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GA 69th session - 2014 | A/69/266 | Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsak - Preventing and addressing violence and atrocities against minorities |
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GA 68th session - 2013 | A/68/268 | Report of the Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák - Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities |
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GA 67th session - 2012 | A/67/293 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák - the role and activities of national institutional mechanisms in promoting and protecting minority
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GA 65th session - 2010 | A/65/287 | Report of the independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall - (effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities) | |
