Annual Meetings

The Annual Meeting of special procedures, which has been organized since 1994 and is usually held in June, offers mandate holders the opportunity to discuss issues of common interest, coordinate their work and meet with a range of stakeholders, including States and civil society organizations. Information on each Annual Meeting and instructions on how to submit information or points for consideration by mandate holders can be found under the relevant meeting listed below.

The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights underlined the importance of preserving and strengthening the system of special procedures and specified that the procedures and mechanisms should be enabled to harmonize and rationalize their work through periodic meetings (Part II, para. 95). The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was requested to organize periodic meetings of the Special Procedures by the Commission and Council (by CHR resolution 2004/76, as extended by HRC decision 2/102).

Annual Meetings:

• 27th Annual Meeting, 31st August to 3rd September 2021
  
• 26th Annual Meeting, 17 to 21 June 2019
• 25th annual meeting, from 4 to 8 June 2018
• 24th annual meeting, from 27 to 30 June 2017
  
• 23rd annual meeting, from 6 to 10 June 2016
• 22nd annual meeting, from 8 to 12 June 2015
• 21st annual meeting, from 29 September to 3 October 2014
• 20th annual meeting, from 24 to 28 June 2013
• 19th annual meeting, from 11 to 15 June 2012
• 18th annual meeting, from 27 June to 1 July 2011
• 17th annual meeting, from 28 June to 2 July 2010
• 16th annual meeting, from 29 June to 3 July 2009
• 15th annual meeting, from 23 to 27 June 2008
• 14th annual meeting, from 18 to 22 June 2007
• 13th annual meeting, from 19 to 23 June 2006
• 12th annual meeting, from 21- 25 of June 2005
• 11th annual meeting, from 21- 25 of June 2004
• 10th annual meeting, from 23 - 27 June 2003