Summary

In its resolution 56/7, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct a study and prepare a report on the impact of the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation on the enjoyment and realization of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of opinion and expression, to present the report to the Council at its sixty-third session and to convene, before the fifty-ninth session of the Council, a half-day expert workshop on the impact of the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation on the enjoyment and realization of human rights and to exchange good practices and promote approaches to counter those challenges while protecting and reinforcing human rights standards. Due to the liquidity crisis, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was able to implement that mandate only partially. The present document therefore contains a summary of the discussions held during the expert workshop convened online on 28 May 2025, rather than the findings of the study called for in the resolution.