A/HRC/45/43 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 16 July 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–2 October 2020 Agenda items 2 and 8 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Activities of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national institutions in compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) Report of the Secretary-General* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 39/17 and contains information on the activities carried out from October 2018 to June 2020 by the Subcommittee on Accreditation of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in considering and reviewing applications of national human rights institutions for accreditation and reaccreditation. * The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.20-09579(E) 