A/HRC/16/77 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 3 February 2011 Original: English Human Rights Council Sixteenth session 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 and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Process currently utilized by the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to accredit national institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles Report of the Secretary-General∗ ** Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 2/102 of 6 October 2006 and contains information on the activities carried out by the Subcommittee on Accreditation of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, in considering and reviewing applications for accreditation and carrying out re-accreditation and accreditation reviews of national human rights institutions. It also contains detailed information on the development of the general observations of the Subcommittee, aimed at a more rigorous but at the same time fairer and more transparent accreditation and review process. ∗ ** GE.11-10580 Late submission. The annex to the present document is circulated as received, in the language of submission only.