A/70/217*
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 July 2015
English
Original: French
Seventieth session
Item 73 (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
Situation of human rights defenders
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the
report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders,
Mr. Michel Forst, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 66/164 and
68/181 and Human Rights Council resolutions 16/5 and 25/18.
* Reissued for technical reasons on 20 October 2015.
** A/70/150.
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