A/HRC/27/27 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 18 June 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-seventh 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 Consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development Summary The present report contains a brief overview of the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations human rights mechanisms relating to the promotion and protection of the realization of the right to development. It covers the period from May 2013 to April 2014 and complements the report of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner on the right to development submitted to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fourth session (A/HRC/24/27). The activities included support for relevant Council mechanisms, as well as events and initiatives in the areas of inter-agency coordination and mainstreaming of the right to development into the policies and programmes of international organizations and into the post-2015 development agenda. GE.14-05958 (E) *1405958*