A/HRC/32/43 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 27 April 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-second session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity Note by the Secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the thematic report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Virginia Dadan, prepared pursuant to resolution 26/6. In that report, the Independent Expert presents a summary of the outcome of a series of mandated regional consultations on the proposed draft declaration on the right of peoples and individuals to international solidarity which was initially submitted to the Council in June 2014. The report highlights the comments and suggestions of a general nature that were gathered in the five regions between 2015 and early 2016, and contains in the conclusion the next steps forward. GE.16-06881(E) 