A/HRC/24/27 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 48/141, the General Assembly set out the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and decided that one of the responsibilities of the High Commissioner would be “to promote and protect the realization of the right to development and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for this purpose”. The same resolution also stipulated that the High Commissioner should “recognize the importance of promoting a balanced and sustainable development for all people and of ensuring realization of the right to development, as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development”. 2. In its resolution 67/171, the General Assembly reaffirmed its “request to the High Commissioner, in mainstreaming the right to development, to undertake effectively activities aimed at strengthening the global partnership for development among Member States, development agencies and the international development, financial and trade institutions and to reflect those activities in detail in her next report to the Human Rights Council”. In the same resolution, the General Assembly called upon “the United Nations funds and programmes, as well as the specialized agencies, to mainstream the right to development in their operational programmes and objectives”, and stressed “the need for the international financial and multilateral trading systems to mainstream the right to development in their policies and objectives”. 3. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 21/32, encouraged “the High Commissioner to pursue her efforts, in fulfilment of her mandated responsibility, to enhance support for the promotion and protection of the realization of the right to development, taking as reference the Declaration on the Right to Development, all resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the right to development, and agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group [on the Right to Development]”. 4. In the same resolution, the Human Rights Council requested “the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Council an annual report on its activities, including on inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system with regard to the promotion and realization of the right to development”. Similarly, the General Assembly, in its resolution 67/171, requested the Secretary-General “to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session and an interim report to the Council on the implementation of the present resolution, including efforts made at the national, regional and international levels in the promotion and realization of the right to development”. 5. The present report is submitted in accordance with the above-mentioned requests and provides information on the activities undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and United Nations human rights mechanisms during the period from July 2012 to May 2013. II. Activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 6. The framework and strategy of the programme of OHCHR on the promotion and realization of the right to development is explained in the previous consolidated report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to development (A/HRC/21/28, paras. 5 and 6). 3