A/75/165
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2020
Original: English
Seventy-fifth session
Item 72 (b) of the preliminary list*
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, Mary
Lawlor, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 43/16 and
Assembly resolution 74/146.
* A/75/50.
20-09601 (E)
270820
*2009601*