A/HRC/22/20 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 13 December 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-second session Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Conclusions and recommendations of the special procedures Report of the Secretary-General 1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102, requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue her activities in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update relevant reports and studies. 2. The Commission on Human Rights, in paragraph 12 (a) of its resolution 2004/76, requested the Secretary-General to issue annually conclusions and recommendations of the special procedures, so as to enable further discussion of their implementation. In paragraph 10 (c) of resolution 2004/76, the Commission also requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to prepare a comprehensive and regularly updated electronic compilation of special procedures recommendations by country, where such did not yet exist. In paragraph 29 of the annex to General Assembly resolution 65/281, the Assembly provided that the Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) would continue to maintain information on special procedures in a comprehensive and easily accessible manner. 3. The Secretary-General draws the attention of the Human Rights Council to the compilation of conclusions and recommendations included in annual reports and relevant addenda thereto submitted by the special procedures to the Council in 2012 at its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first sessions, which will be available on the OHCHR website (www.ohchr.org). GE.12-18704