A/HRC/17/23 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 April 2011 Original: English Human Rights Council Seventeenth 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 Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on good practices in efforts aimed at preventing violence against women* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 14/12. It provides an analytical summary of the information submitted by stakeholders on efforts aimed at preventing violence against women, and challenges thereto. * Late submission. GE.11-12949