A/HRC/44/44 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 1 April 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 15 June–3 July 2020 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development International solidarity and climate change Report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity* Summary The present report is the third submitted to the Human Rights Council by the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor. In the report, submitted pursuant to Council resolution 35/3, the Independent Expert discusses the issue of human rights-based international solidarity in the context of climate change. * The Independent Expert is grateful to the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada, and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at the same university, for their assistance in the preparation of the present report. GE.20-04949(E) 