A/HRC/28/31 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 December 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth 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 Workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary In its resolution 24/19, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights to take stock of developments since the workshop held in December 2012 on the same subject. The Council requested that the workshop include three thematic discussions on: the mainstreaming of economic, social and cultural rights; the economic, social and cultural rights of persons with disabilities; and the economic, social and cultural rights of women. The Council further requested the High Commissioner to present to the Council, at its twenty-eighth session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the workshop and on the progress towards the implementation of resolution 24/19. * The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.14-24717 