31/67 Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on its research-based report on the activities of vulture funds and the impact on human rights

Human Rights Council Thirty-first session

Agenda items 3 and 5

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Human rights bodies and mechanisms

Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on its research-based report on the activities of vulture funds and the impact on human rights

Note by the Secretariat

1. In its resolution 27/30, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory

Committee to prepare a research-based report on the activities of vulture funds and the

impact on human rights, and to present a progress report thereon to the Council at its thirty-

first session.

2. At its fifteenth session, in August 2015, the Advisory Committee decided to

recommend that the Human Rights Council extend the time schedule envisaged in order to

allow for better informed work, and that it request the Committee to submit a progress

report to the Council at its thirty-third session.

3. The above-mentioned progress report of the Advisory Committee will accordingly

be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session.