Human Rights Council (HRC) 62nd session

The 62nd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC62) is scheduled to take place from 15 June to 16 July 2026 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

This session provides a key platform for the international community to discuss, promote, and protect human rights worldwide.

The session will address a comprehensive agenda encompassing a broad spectrum of human rights issues. Major agenda items include the consideration of the Annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, discussions on the promotion and protection of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, and the review of specific human rights situations that require the Council’s attention.

The Human Rights Council will review numerous reports during the session. Regarding digital matters, the council will review:

• Using digital tools for stakeholder engagement: aligning corporate practice with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/62/25)
• States’ obligations under international human rights law, as well as relevant norms and commitments, and the human rights responsibilities of business enterprises in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, across the lifecycle of new and emerging digital technologies – Study of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/62/33)
• Unmasking the chilling effects of the digital surveillance ecosystem: the erosion of assembly and association rights – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (A/HRC/62/45)
• Women’s and girls’ rights and artificial intelligence and related digital technologies – Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls (A/HRC/62/48)
• Countering cyberbullying against older persons – Note by the Secretariat (A/HRC/62/64)