A/HRC/37/18 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 January 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-seventh session 26 February – 23 March 2018 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 Secretary-General on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity Note by the Secretariat In its resolution 70/162, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its seventy-second session and to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-seventh session on the implementation of that resolution. In that regard, the Secretariat has the honour to refer the Council to the report of the Secretary-General submitted to the Assembly (A/72/290). GE.18-00729(E) 