A/HRC/41/30 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 May 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-first session 24 June–12 July 2019 Agenda items 2 and 8 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Consultation on the experiences and practices of national human rights institutions in working to support the establishment and maintenance of inclusive societies and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to paragraph 13 of Human Rights Council resolution 39/17, in which the Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to convene, in close coordination with the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, on the margins of the 2019 annual meeting of the Global Alliance, an intersessional, half-day consultation, open to all States, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders, with the objective of exchanging the experiences and practices of national human rights institutions in working to support the establishment and maintenance of inclusive societies and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Council further requested OHCHR to submit a summary report on the consultation, at its forty-first session. Prior to the consultation, OHCHR received written contributions from national human rights institutions on their experiences, challenges and best practices in the implementation, monitoring and measurement of the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on Goal 16. The consultation took place on 7 March 2019 and resulted in a number of conclusions and recommendations. Participants agreed that national human rights institutions support the realization of the 2030 Agenda through their unique mandate, role and functions, which allow them to promote all human rights and * Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.19-08139(E) 