A/HRC/18/28 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 6 June 2011 Original: English Human Rights Council Eighteenth 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 Human rights and unilateral coercive measures Note by the Secretariat 1. In its resolution 15/24 on human rights and unilateral coercive measures, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a thematic study on the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, including recommendations on actions aimed at ending such measures, taking into account all previous reports, resolutions and relevant information available to the United Nations system in this regard, and to present the study to the Council at its eighteenth session. 2. The above-mentioned study is under preparation and will require additional time for its completion. The study therefore will be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its nineteenth session. GE.11-13922