The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 19/32, requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize a workshop on the various aspects relating to the impact of the application of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights by the affected populations in the States targeted.

The workshop was held on 5 April 2013 in Geneva and report on the proceedings of the workshop (A/HRC/24/20) was submitted to the Council at its twenty-third session.

• The concept note of the workshop
• The programme

Presentations and statements

Opening Session

• Opening remarks by the Chairperson
• Statement by Ms. Marcia V. J. Kran, Director, Research and Right to Development Division, OHCHR
• Keynote speech by Mr. Marc Bossuyt, President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium

Session I: Unilateral coercive measures: Concept, Legal Framework and Challenges

• Mr. Ariranga. G. Pillay, Chairperson, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Ms. Alena Douhan, Associate Professor, Belarusian State University
• Mr. Kees Smit-Sibinga, EEAS, EU Commission

Session II: Impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights

• Mr. Benedict Chigara, Professor, Brunel University, UK
• Ms. Anuradha M. Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
• Mr. Salvador Tanajero, Legal Advisor, Permanent Mission of Mexico

Session III: The Way Forward

• H. E. Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Office at Geneva
• Mr. Jean Ziegler, Professor, University of Geneva, former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and former Vice-Chairperson of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
• Mr. Melik Özden, Centre Europe-Tiers Monde, CETIM

Statements by Member States made available to the Secretariat:

• Belarus
• Iran (Islamic Republic)
• Malaysia
• Sudan
• Venezuela
• Zimbabwe