UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/12/47 22 July 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Twelfth session Agenda item 5 HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES AND MECHANISMS Note by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* The High Commissioner for Human Rights has the honour to transmit to the members of the Human Rights Council the report of the sixteenth meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, which took place in Geneva from 29 June to 3 July 2009. * Late submission. GE.09-14699 (E) 050809