A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/4/92 23 January 2007 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourth session Item 2 of the provisional agenda IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL” Process currently utilized by the International Coordinating Committee to accredit national human rights institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles and ensure that the process is strengthened with appropriate periodic review and on ways and means of enhancing participation of national human rights institutions in the work of the Commission Report of the Secretary-General 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 2/102, in which the Council decided to request the High Commissioner for Human Rights to “continue with the fulfilment of her activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies”. 2 The present report outlines the progress achieved since the last report to the sixty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights entitled “Effective functioning of Human Rights Mechanisms: National Institutions and Regional Arrangements” (E/CN.4/2006/102). This report detailed the process currently utilized by the International Coordinating Committee of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (ICC) to accredit national human rights institutions (NHRIs) as being in compliance with the Principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) (General Assembly resolution 48/134, annex). GE.07-10432 (E) 300107