15/49 Report of the Secretary-General on the comparative summary of existing communications and inquiry procedures and practices under international human rights instruments and under the United Nations system - Note by the Secretary-General

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Human Rights Council Fifteenth session Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Note by the Secretariat*

1. In its resolution 13/3 entitled “Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure”, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to update and publish the report of the Secretary-General on the comparative summary of existing communications and inquiry procedures and practices under international human rights instruments and under the United Nations system, published on 22 November 2004 (E/CN.4/2005/WG.23/2), and to present that report to the Council at its fifteenth session.

2. The Office of the High Commissioner is preparing the above-mentioned updated report with a view to making it available to the Open-ended Working Group at its second session, to be held from 6 to 10 December 2010. The High Commissioner will submit that report, together with the report of the Open-ended Working Group on its second session, to the Council no later than at its seventeenth session.

* Late submission.