A/HRC/43/26 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 11 December 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 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 Report of the Secretary-General on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity Note by the Secretariat 1. The present note is submitted pursuant to resolution 72/175 of the General Assembly, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its seventy-fourth session and to the Human Rights Council at its forty-third session on the safety of journalists. 2. Pursuant to the above-mentioned request, the Secretariat refers the Human Rights Council to the report of the Secretary-General, submitted to the General Assembly, on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (A/74/314). In the report, the SecretaryGeneral provides an overview of the current situation in relation to the safety of journalists and of the action taken at the international, regional and national levels, including by the United Nations, taking into account the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. GE.19-21346(E) 