A/HRC/35/5 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 24 March 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fifth session 6-23 June 2017 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 Expert workshop on the impact of existing strategies and initiatives to address child, early and forced marriage Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 on strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage. In that resolution, the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize an expert workshop to review and discuss the impact of existing strategies and initiatives to address child, early and forced marriage and to make recommendations for further action by States and the international community towards the full implementation of human rights obligations in that regard. The present report contains a summary of the discussions that took place during the expert workshop, which took place in Geneva on 21 and 22 October 2016. GE.17-04792(E) 