A/HRC/37/35 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 November 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-seventh session 26 February – 23 March 2018 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 Summary of the panel discussion on human rights, climate change, migrants and persons displaced across international borders Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary In its resolution 35/20 the Human Rights Council decided to hold an intersessional panel discussion on human rights, climate change, migrants and persons displaced across international borders. The Council also requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a summary report on the panel discussion, held on 6 October 2017, to the appropriate mechanisms sufficiently in advance to ensure that it fed into the stocktaking meeting of the preparatory process leading to the adoption of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration and to the work of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage, particularly to the ongoing work of the Task Force on Displacement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to the Council at its thirty-seventh session. The present report was prepared pursuant to that request. GE.17-20181(E) 