A/HRC/44/34 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 April 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 15 June–3 July 2020 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 Panel discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report contains a summary of the proceedings of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, held at the forty-second session of the Human Rights Council, including summaries of the opening statements and of the presentations made by panellists and highlights from the interactive discussion that followed. Pursuant to Council resolution 39/13, the panel discussion was focused on the promotion and preservation of indigenous languages. GE.20-05303(E) 