A/HRC/33/34 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 15 July 2016 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-third session Agenda items 2 and 8 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Activities of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions in accrediting national institutions in compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles)* Report of the Secretary-General Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 27/18 and contains information on activities carried out from October 2014 to May 2016 by the Subcommittee on Accreditation of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (the former International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights) in considering and reviewing applications for accreditation and reaccreditation of national human rights institutions. * The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only. GE.16-12213(E) 