A/HRC/44/37* United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 21 May 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 15 June–3 July 2020 Agenda items 2 and 10 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Technical assistance and capacity-building Technical cooperation and capacity-building to promote and protect the rights of persons deprived of their liberty: implementation of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Noncustodial Measures for Women Offenders Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights** Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 42/32. In the report the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) sets out examples of technical assistance and advisory services it has provided, alone or with other United Nations entities, to promote and protect the rights of persons deprived of liberty in implementation of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules). In the report, OHCHR draws on information received from national and regional experiences of technical cooperation, drawing on information received from States, United Nations entities and other relevant stakeholders. * Reissued for technical reasons on 21 July 2020. ** Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.20-06944(E) 