A/HRC/43/32 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 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 Workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary In its resolution 34/17, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to hold, in 2019, a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, including a thematic discussion on the role of regional arrangements in combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and in the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. The Human Rights Council also requested the High Commissioner to present to it, at its forty-third session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the workshop and the progress towards the implementation of resolution 34/17. The present report provides a summary of the workshop, which was held in Geneva on 21 and 22 October 2019. * The present document was submitted late to the conference services without the explanation required under paragraph 8 of General Assembly resolution 53/208 B. GE.20-00163(E) 