The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has the honour to refer to Human Rights Council resolution 2/2 “Human Rights and extreme poverty”, adopted at its second session on 27 November 2006.

In paragraph 5 of the resolution, the Human Rights Council took note of the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor annexed to Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/9 of 24 August 2006, and requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to “circulate the draft guiding principles, in order to obtain the views of States, relevant United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organisations, United Nations treaties bodies, special procedures including the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organisations, especially those in which people in situations of extreme poverty express their views, and other relevant stakeholders, and to report to the Council at is seventh session.”

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights would be grateful if any information and materials in response to the resolution could be forwarded before 31 October 2007 to the attention of:

Mr. Mac Darrow, Coordinator
MDGs and Right to Development Unit
Research and Right to Development Branch
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Fax: + 41 22 917 9008