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Current levels of representation of women in human rights organs and mechanisms

Background

At its forty-first session in June 2019, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 41/6, in which it requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a report, in close cooperation with the Working Group and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, on current levels of representation of women in human rights organs and mechanisms such as the Advisory Committee, the treaty bodies and the special procedures established by the Human Rights Council. The Council also requested that the report includes good practices by States in nominating, electing and appointing candidates to ensure balanced gender representation, in line with the system-wide strategy on gender parity, and recommendations to assist the Council and Member States in that regard. 

The Advisory Committee established a drafting group at its twenty-third session, held from 22 to 26 July 2019.

Drafting group

At the time of finalization of the report, the members of the drafting group were:

  • Buhm-Suk Baek
  • Milena Costas Trascasas
  • José Augusto Lindgren Alves
  • Ajai Malhotra
  • Itsuko Nakai
  • Mona Omar (Chair)
  • Javier Palummo
  • Elizabeth Salmón (Rapporteur)
  • Patrycja Sasnal
  • Catherine Van de Heyning

The final report of the Advisory Committee was submitted to the forty-seventh session (June 2021) of the Human Rights Council, see Current levels of representation of women in human rights organs and mechanisms: ensuring gender balance (2021) - A/HRC/47/51.

Renewed Call for contributions

Call for contributions:

Inputs received

Member States

Special Procedures

NHRIs

Non-governmental organizations and Civil Society Organizations

Academics