30/04/2009

New HRC Secretariat document on the list of speakers

The Secretariat of the Human Rights Council has summarized in a document the procedure on the opening of the list of speakers.

Here are the main points:

- from now on, the inscription for the two reviews of a given day will take place the day before 15 minutes before the begining of the afternoon review.

- for the first day of the session, the inscription is at 9 am the very same day for both reviews.

- the list does not close so States can always inscribe.

- however time only allows for 45 States to take the floor and the remaining ones will be given the floor if time remains.

See the procedure here