A/HRC/36/63 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 27 July 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-sixth session 11-29 September 2017 Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan Note by the Secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Aristide Nononsi. The report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/26, in which the Council decided to extend for a period of one year the mandate of the Independent Expert, and requested him to report to it at its thirty-sixth session. The report covers the period from October 2016 to June 2017. In it, the Independent Expert assesses the implementation of the previous recommendations, outlines recent developments and the continuing human rights challenges in the country, identifies technical assistance and capacity-building needs and provides a list of recommendations, addressed to the Government and other stakeholders, necessary for addressing the human rights challenges in the country. GE.17-12816(E)  