A/HRC/27/40 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 30 June 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-third 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 Activities of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in accrediting national institutions in compliance with the Paris Principles Report of the Secretary-General* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 23/17 of 23 June 2013 and contains information on activities carried out from May 2013 to March 2014 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 reaccreditation of national human rights institutions. * The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.14-06883 (E) *1406883*