A/HRC/31/24 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 20 January 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-first session Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Conclusions and recommendations of special procedures* Report of the Secretary-General 1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102, requested the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue their activities in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies. 2. The Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 2004/76, requested the Secretary-General to issue annually conclusions and recommendations of the special procedures so as to enable further discussion of their implementation. The Commission also requested the High Commissioner to continue to prepare a comprehensive and regularly updated electronic compilation of recommendations made by the special procedures, by country, where such did not yet exist. In paragraph 29 of the annex to its resolution 65/281, the General Assembly provided that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) would continue to maintain information on special procedures in a comprehensive and easily accessible manner. 3. The Secretary-General draws the attention of the Human Rights Council to the conclusions and recommendations included in annual reports and the relevant addenda thereto submitted by the special procedures to the Council in 2015 at its twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth sessions.1 4. In 2015, special procedure mandate holders presented 134 reports to the Human Rights Council. * 1 The present report was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent developments. Available on the OHCHR website at www.ohchr.org. GE.16-00708(E) *1600708*