A/HRC/23/18 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 8 April 2013 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-third 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 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 18/14, 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 September 2010 on the same subject. The Council also requested that the workshop include a thematic discussion, based on concrete and practical experience of regional mechanisms, to share information on best practices, lessons learned and new possible forms of cooperation. In resolution 18/14, the Council requested the High Commissioner to present to the Council, at its twenty-second session, a report containing a summary of the discussions held at the workshop and of the progress towards the implementation of that resolution. From 12 to 14 December 2012, the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) organized the workshop on the theme “Enhancing cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms” in Geneva, with the participation of Member States, United Nations human rights mechanisms, regional mechanisms in Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. National human rights institutions, national preventive * The annexes to the present report are circulated as received, in the language of submission only. ** Late submission. GE.13-12723