A/HRC/15/56 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 9 August 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifteenth 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 Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the international workshop on enhancing cooperation between international and regional mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights* ** Summary In resolution 12/15 the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to hold a workshop on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights on a regular basis, and to convene one in the first semester of 2010 to identify concrete proposals on ways and means to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and regional arrangements in the field of human rights, and report on it to the Council at its fifteenth session. The Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) organized an international workshop on “Enhancing cooperation between international and regional human rights mechanisms”, which was held in Geneva, on 3 and 4 May 2010. Participants included representatives of regional human rights mechanisms in Africa, the Americas and Europe, as well as of subregional mechanisms in Africa. The Indonesian representative of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) attended. Independent experts from the United Nations treaty bodies and the Human Rights Council special procedures, as well as member States, national human rights institutions (NHRIs), prominent international, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and academics also participated in the workshop. Participants agreed on the need to establish mechanisms to reinforce cooperation between international and regional human rights * ** GE.10-15332 Late submission. The annexes have not been edited and are reproduced in the language of submission only.