A/HRC/39/21 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 13 August 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-ninth session 10–28 September 2018 Agenda items 2 and 8 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Activities of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national institutions in compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) Report of the Secretary-General*, ** Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/15 and contains information on activities carried out from November 2016 to May 2018 by the Subcommittee on Accreditation of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in considering and reviewing applications of national human rights institutions for accreditation and reaccreditation. * The present report was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent information. ** The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.18-13279(E) 