A/HRC/34/23 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 December 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 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 Workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* Summary In its resolution 30/3, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights to take stock of developments since the workshop held in 2014, including a thematic discussion on cooperation with human rights defenders and civil society, based on concrete and practical experiences of regional mechanisms, in order to share information on best practices, lessons learned and new possible forms of cooperation, with the participation of relevant experts from international, regional, subregional and interregional human rights mechanisms, as well as Member States, observers, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations. The Council also requested the High Commissioner to present to the Council, at its thirtyfourth session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the workshop and on the progress towards the implementation of resolution 30/3. * The present document was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent developments. GE.16-22765(E) 