UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/7/40 5 February 2008 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Seventh 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 Efforts by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for universal ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Note by the Secretariat In its decision 2/102, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to “continue with the fulfilment of [her] activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies”. The Secretariat informs the Human Rights Council that an update to the note of the Secretariat submitted to the Council at its fourth session (A/HRC/4/51), outlining the efforts of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to encourage the universal ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, will be submitted for consideration at its eighth session. ----- GE.08-10510 (E) 120208