The sixteenth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development opened on 27 April 2015. At its first meeting, the Working Group decided to suspend its session pending a consensus agreement on the election of the Chair-Rapporteur.
The sixteenth session is scheduled to resume from 1 to 4 September 2015. The report on the sixteenth session will be submitted to a future session of the Human Rights Council following the conclusion of the said session and in accordance with the programme of work of the Council.