A/HRC/45/17 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 13 July 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–2 October 2020 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Report of the Working Group on the Right to Development on its twenty-first session Note by the Secretariat Owing to the measures put into place as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) pandemic, the Working Group on the Right to Development was obliged to postpone its twenty-first session, originally scheduled to be held from 4 to 8 May 2020, to 2 to 6 November 2020. The Secretariat therefore informs the Human Rights Council that the Working Group will submit the report on its twenty-first session, together with the report on its twenty-second session, to the Council at its forty-eighth session. GE.20-09375(E) 