A/HRC/44/35 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 8 April 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 15 June–3 July 2020 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 Intersessional interactive dialogue on ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of the Human Rights Council on issues affecting them Summary report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report summarizes the proceedings of the Human Rights Council intersessional interactive dialogue on ways to enhance the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in meetings of the Council on issues affecting them. The intersessional dialogue was held on 15 July 2019 on the margins of the twelfth session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, pursuant to Council resolution 39/13. The report contains summaries of the opening statements and introductory presentations, and the highlights of the interactive dialogue that followed. GE.20-05379(E) 