A/HRC/21/28 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141, in which the General Assembly established the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Assembly decided that one of the responsibilities of the High Commissioner would be to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for that purpose. 2. In its resolution 66/155, the General Assembly reaffirmed its request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to undertake effectively activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions, and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the Human Rights Council. 3. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 19/34, requested the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system with regard to the promotion and realization of the right to development. Similarly, the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/155, requested the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its sixty-seventh session and an interim report to the Council on the implementation of resolution 66/155, including efforts made at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development. 4. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above-mentioned requests and provides information on the activities undertaken by OHCHR in the period from December 2011 to June 2012. It supplements the report of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner on the right to development submitted to the Council at its nineteenth session (A/HRC/19/45). II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights relating to the promotion and realization of the right to development 5. The programme of OHCHR on the promotion and realization of the right to development is set out in programme 19 of the strategic framework for the period 20122013 and guided by a multidimensional strategy in accordance with the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Millennium Declaration and other relevant instruments, as well as by the above-mentioned mandates of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council. The implementation of this policy framework is undertaken within the framework of the OHCHR Management Plan for 20122013: Working for results.1 6. The promotion and effective realization of the right to development remain a key objective of OHCHR that is fully supported by the Office’s thematic strategies. The thematic strategy in which the right to development is situated seeks to combat poverty and increase the integration of human rights standards and principles into the policies of the United Nations system at the national and international levels. In addition to the support 1 See OHCHR Report 2011, available from www2.ohchr.org/english/ohchrreport2011/web_version/ohchr_report2011_web/index.html. 3