Summary

The present report provides a comprehensive overview of all the reports presented by special procedure mandate holders in 2025. It includes the list of mandate holders reporting at each of the three sessions of the Human Rights Council and at the General Assembly, the number of reports on country visits and any other reports submitted by the special procedures. It also contains information about the main themes addressed by mandate holders in their thematic reports, focusing on cross-cutting issues, such as women’s human rights and gender, the prevention of human rights violations and abuses, security, conflict and peacebuilding, migration, the environment and climate change, new technologies, finance, development and human rights and land and natural resources. The report further contains a reflection on the link between the work carried out by the special procedures and the Pact for the Future.