A/65/259
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 August 2010
Original: English
Sixty-fifth session
Item 69 (b) of the provisional agenda*
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches
for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights
and fundamental freedoms
Human rights and extreme poverty
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the Members of the
General Assembly the report on the question of human rights and extreme poverty
submitted by Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, independent expert on the question of
human rights and extreme poverty, in accordance with resolution 8/11 of the Human
Rights Council.
* A/65/150.
10-47879 (E) 070910
*1047879*