A/HRC/38/22 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 18 April 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-eighth session 18 June–6 July 2018 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 Summary of the intersessional panel discussion on the role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/8. It provides a summary of the intersessional panel discussion on the role of local government in the promotion and protection of human rights, held on 4 September 2017. GE.18-06181(E) 