A/HRC/19/32 I. Introduction 1. In 2001, the then Commission on Human Rights (and subsequently, the Human Rights Council) stressed the need to develop a set of principles on the implementation of existing human rights norms and standards in the fight against extreme poverty. In response, the then Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights entrusted an ad hoc group of experts with the task of preparing the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights. These were submitted by the Sub-Commission to the Human Rights Council at its second session in 2006 (A/HRC/2/2-A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36) and approved by the Council in its resolution 2006/9. From 2006 to 2009 the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) led consultations on the draft guiding principles. The views of States, United Nations agencies and intergovernmental organizations, treaty bodies and special procedures, national human rights institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders were compiled and analysed in a report presented to the Council in 2009 (A/HRC/11/32). Following these consultations, the Human Rights Council invited the then independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty (now the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights), Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona, to facilitate the further progress of the draft guiding principles by providing recommendations to assist States in improving the draft and incorporating the outcomes of the consultations. She presented her report to the Council in September 2010 (A/HRC/15/41). In response, the Council invited OHCHR to hold a broad consultation on the draft guiding principles on the basis of the annotated outline that was included in the above report. The objective of this consultation was to gain input from a broad range of actors, particularly States and development practitioners, so that consensus and collective agreement could be reached on the draft guiding principles. The present report details the outcome of these consultations. 1 On its basis, the Special Rapporteur will submit a final draft of the DGPs to the Human Rights Council in September 2012. 2. In view of its purpose to support the Special Rapporteur in her elaboration of the final draft as well as to facilitate further input on part of stakeholders, the present report is structured in line with the annotated draft guiding principles (see HRC/15/41, annex) and the questions put to stakeholders in the questionnaire attached to the Special Rapporteur‟s report. Submissions and statements have, thus, been analysed and sorted in relation to the section and, where applicable, the paragraph or letter to which they refer, together with short section summaries providing an overview of comments. The questions from the questionnaire on each section have been reproduced at each section heading. II. General views on the draft guiding principles Convergences 3. The revisions to the current draft of the guiding principles proposed by the Special Rapporteur were broadly endorsed. Stakeholders strongly supported the special emphasis given, throughout the draft, to women and children as a category of vulnerability cutting across all other groups. It was generally agreed that extreme poverty had tangible but also intangible features, most notably the discrimination and social stigma attached to it and the processes and institutions that produced it. There was considerable convergence among parties on the need to include a dedicated paragraph on corruption, and to make more 1 On the basis of written submissions and oral statements made at a consultation meeting held in Geneva on 22 and 23 June 2011. 3