A/HRC/6/21 page 2 Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 4/7 of the Human Rights Council of 30 March 2007 in which the Council decided “to initiate a process to rectify, in accordance with international law, in particular the law of international treaties, the legal status of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, with the aim of placing the Committee on a par with all other treaty monitoring bodies”. In the same resolution, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) “to seek the views of States and those of all other stakeholders on this issue, and to prepare a report containing these views, as well as an input from the Office of Legal Affairs in this regard, for submission to the last session of the Human Rights Council in 2007”. The report reflects the replies received in response to the request for information sent by OHCHR to Member States, the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA), and other stakeholders (United Nations agencies and programmes and non-governmental organizations). Replies were received from the Governments of Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, Guyana, Ireland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States of America. The report also includes, in an annex, the input received from OLA, setting out legal options to place the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on a par with other treaty monitoring bodies.