A/HRC/32/39 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 May 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-second session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on the right to life and the use of force by private security providers in law enforcement contexts Note by the Secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, submitted pursuant to Council resolution 26/12. In the report, the Special Rapporteur presents a short commentary on the process of updating the United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (known as the Minnesota Protocol) and surveys the standards for the use of force by private security providers in law enforcement contexts. GE.16-07411(E) 