A/HRC/42/29 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 1 July 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 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 Right to development Report of the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report contains an overview of the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the promotion and realization of the right to development undertaken between June 2018 and May 2019. The report also provides an analysis of the implementation of the right to development, which takes into account existing challenges, and contains recommendations on how to overcome those challenges. The analysis is based on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 17 and takes into account the work undertaken by and for the Working Group on the Right to Development and other human rights mechanisms. The report complements the report of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner on the right to development submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session (A/HRC/39/18). GE.19-11108(E) 