Published on 27 March 2015

UN Human Rights Council establishes a Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy

Bern, 27.3.2015 - The Human Rights Council today concludes its annual spring session. The four-week session was opened on 2 March 2015 with Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter in attendance as representative of the host country. The Human Rights Council adopted the mandate for a Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and, for the first time, also adopted a resolution addressing the impact of the world drug problem on the protection of human rights – two new initiatives which Switzerland has been at the forefront of efforts to promote.