A/HRC/14/34 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 29 April 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Fourteenth session Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and report 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 Secretary-General on human rights in the administration of justice, including juvenile justice* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to a request by the Human Rights Council to the Secretary-General in resolution 10/2 to submit a report on the latest developments, challenges and good practices in human rights in the administration of justice, including juvenile justice and conditions for women and children in detention, as well as in the activities undertaken by the United Nations system as a whole. The report looks briefly at the long-standing United Nations engagement with the issue of human rights protection in the administration of justice, and provides a short outline of the human rights norms and standards relevant in the administration of justice. The following chapters set out a number of developments and activities undertaken by the United Nations system in the period since the last report on this topic by the Secretary-General to the Council, with a focus on juvenile justice and the conditions of women and children in detention. The report concludes with some of the current challenges in protecting human rights in the administration of justice. * Late submission. GE.10-13137 (E) 170510