HRC Special Sessions
- HRC 28th Special Session on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, 18 May 2018
- HRC 27th Special Session on the human rights situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, 5th December 2017
- HRC 26th Special Session on the human rights situation in South Sudan, 14 December 2016
- HRC 25th Special Session on the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, and the recent situation in Aleppo, 21 October 2016
- •Statement by Ambassador O’Brien at the HRC 24th Special Session on preventing further deterioration of the human rights situation in Burundi, 17 December 2015
- Statement by Ambassador O’Brien at the HRC 23rd Special Session: the human rights situation in Nigeria in light of the terrorist attacks and human rights abuses and violations committed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, 1 April 2015
- Statement by Ambassador O’Brien at the HRC 22nd Special Session: Human Rights Situation in Iraq in light of abuses committed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and associated groups, 1 September 2014
- Statement by Ambassador O’Brien at the HRC 21st Special Session: Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, 23rd July 2014
- Statement by Ambassador O’Brien at the HRC Special Session on the Central African Republic, 20th January 2014
- Statement by Ireland during the Organisational session of the Human Rights Council for the 10th cycle