Summary

In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 44/11, the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, discusses his work over the last year in revising the existing draft declaration on the right to international solidarity. The report offers a set of rationales for undertaking the revisions made to the draft text, sets out the process adopted for preparing a revised draft declaration, offers an exposition on the nature of the main revisions incorporated in the new draft, reiterates the case for its adoption or endorsement by the Human Rights Council and offers some conclusions and recommendations. The report also presents the revised draft declaration at annex I and offers, in annex II, a set of specific explanatory notes for the amendments that have been introduced into the revised draft.