A/HRC/18/24 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 13 September 2011 Original: English Human Rights Council Eighteenth session 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 Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Workshop on the Role of Prevention in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights∗ ** Summary The Human Rights Council adopted, at its fourteenth session, resolution 14/5 on the role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights. By this resolution, the Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to consult States, national human rights institutions (NHRIs), civil society and other relevant stakeholders, using a questionnaire format, on the conceptual and practical dimensions of prevention with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights, and to compile and publish the responses. Building on that research, the Council further requested that OHCHR convene a workshop, based on the information gathered from the questionnaire, to further explore the role of prevention in the promotion and protection of human rights, and to present a summary of the workshop proceedings to the Council at its eighteenth session. The questionnaire, circulated to States, NHRIs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), received 53 responses regarding, inter alia, the legal framework of States, functional capacity needs, core promotion and protection activities, priority thematic areas, addressing the Millennium Development Goals from a human rights perspective, rule of ∗ ** GE.11-15829 Late submission. All references to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, shall be understood in the context of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.