A/HRC/33/30 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 20 September 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-third 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 Human rights of migrants Note by the Secretary-General* In its resolution 70/147 on the protection of migrants, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council at their seventy-first and thirty-third sessions, respectively, a comprehensive report entitled “Human rights of migrants”, covering all aspects of the implementation of the resolution. The report of the Secretary-General on the promotion and protection of human rights, including ways and means to promote the human rights of migrants (A/71/284), which will be submitted to the General Assembly for consideration at its seventy-first session, contains a summary of the written submissions received from Governments in response to a note verbale sent from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on behalf of the Secretary-General requesting information on the implementation of the resolution. The Secretary-General, therefore, has the honour to refer the Human Rights Council to that report. * The present document was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent information. GE.16-16239(E) 