A/HRC/31/56
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 January 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák. The report provides an update of her
activities during 2015. It includes a thematic analysis on the topic of minorities and
discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status.
GE.16-01186(E)
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