UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/4/53 27 February 2007 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourth session Item 2 of the provisional agenda IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL” Progress report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Implementation of relevant recommendations of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action* Note by the Secretariat 1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102 of 6 October 2006, requested the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to “continue with the fulfilment of their activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies”. On the current matter of the Progress report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of relevant recommendations of the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, this comprehensive annual report (E/CN.4/2006/15) was submitted to the sixty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights pursuant to its resolution 2005/64. The information in the report remains relevant. * This note has been submitted late in order to cover the first meeting of the experts selected to conduct the study on complementary international standards. GE.07-11064 (E) 050307