A/HRC/FMI/2022/1 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 18 October 2022 Original: English Human Rights Council Forum on Minority Issues Fifteenth session 1 and 2 December 2022 Item 1 of the provisional agenda Adoption of the agenda and programme of work Provisional agenda and annotations* Provisional agenda 1. Adoption of the agenda and programme of work. 2. Review: normative frameworks and the mainstreaming of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities at the United Nations. 3. Rethink: minority rights defenders and their role in promoting the principles of the Declaration. 4. Reform: filling the gaps in the implementation of the human rights of minorities. 5. Open dialogue: urgent situations faced by minorities 6. Concluding remarks. Annotations 1. Adoption of the agenda and programme of work Dates and venue Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 6/15 and 19/23, the fifteenth session of the Forum on Minority Issues will be held on 1 and 2 December 2022. Meetings will be held in Room XX of the Palais des Nations at Geneva. Documents for the session will be made available on the web page of the Forum.1 Opening of the session The President of the Human Rights Council will deliver an opening statement, which will be followed by statements from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Chair of the Forum and the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. * Agreement was reached to publish the present document after the standard publication date owing to 1 circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. www.ohchr.org/en/events/forums/2022/fifteenth-session-forum-minority-issues. GE.22-17029(E)