A/HRC/45/61 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 June 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–2 October 2020 Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Annual report of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Note by the Secretariat 1. The thirteenth session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was scheduled to take place from 8 to 12 June 2020, was postponed to 30 November to 4 December 2020, owing to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. 2. The Expert Mechanism will therefore submit its annual report for 2020 to the Human Rights Council for consideration at its forty-sixth session. GE.20-08622(E) 