A/HRC/33/31 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141 establishing the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly decided that the High Commissioner would, inter alia, promote and protect the realization of the right to development and enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for this purpose. The Assembly also decided that the High Commissioner would recognize the importance of promoting a balanced and sustainable development for all people and of ensuring the realization of the right to development, as established in the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. 2. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 30/28, requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system, relating to the promotion and the realization of the right to development. 3. In its resolution 70/155, the General Assembly reaffirmed the request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to effectively undertake activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions and to reflect those activities in detail in his next report to the Human Rights Council. 4. In the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its seventy-first session and an interim report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of the resolution, including efforts undertaken at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development. 5. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above requests and provides information on the activities undertaken by OHCHR and the United Nations human rights mechanisms between May 2015 and June 2016. II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. In implementing its mandate to promote and protect the realization of the right to development, OHCHR is guided by the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council and agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group on the Right to Development. 7. The OHCHR operational programme for the realization of the right to development is contained in the Secretary-General’s strategic framework for the period 2016-2017 and the OHCHR management plan for the period 2014-2017.1 1 2 See A/69/6/Rev.1, pp. 465-466; OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017: Working for your rights, pp. 63-71; and A/HRC/27/27, paras. 6-13.