A/HRC/24/22 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 June 2013 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-fourth session 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 Summary of information from States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders on best practices in the application of traditional values while promoting and protecting human rights and upholding human dignity Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report is submitted in response to Human Rights Council resolution 21/3 which requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to collect information from States Members of the United Nations and other relevant stakeholders on best practices in the application of traditional values while promoting and protecting human rights and upholding human dignity, and to submit a summary thereon to the Council. The report is submitted to the twenty-fourth session of the Council in accordance with its calendar of thematic resolutions. GE.13-14794