39/59 Report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the activities of vulture funds and their impact on human rights - Note by the Secretariat

GE.18-11280(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-ninth session

10–28 September 2018

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

Report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the activities of vulture funds and their impact on human rights

Note by the Secretariat

1. In its resolution 34/3, the Human Rights Council took note with appreciation of the

progress report of the Advisory Committee on the activities of vulture funds and their

impact on human rights,1 and requested the Committee to present a final report thereon to

the Council at its thirty-ninth session for its consideration.

2. At its twentieth session, in February 2018, the Advisory Committee decided to

recommend that the Human Rights Council extend the time scheduled in order to allow for

better-informed work, and that it request the Advisory Committee to submit its final report

to the Council at its forty-first session.

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

submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-first session.

1 A/HRC/33/54.

United Nations A/HRC/39/59