Summary

The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 53/5. In view of the change of mandate holder, the report first provides an overview of the activities carried out by the outgoing Independent Expert during his term as mandate holder from August 2017 to October 2023, continuing with the work carried out over the last year in revising the existing draft declaration on the right to international solidarity, including rationales for undertaking the revisions made to the draft text, the process adopted for preparing a revised draft declaration and the main revisions incorporated in the new draft, and reiterating the case for the adoption or endorsement of the draft declaration by the Council and the Assembly. The report concludes with a summary of the country visits undertaken by the outgoing mandate holder.