The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 49/20, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report with specific recommendations on how to strengthen a child rights-based approach in the work of the United Nations.

In the report, the High Commissioner describes how children’s rights are integrated into the delivery of the mandate of the High Commissioner to mainstream and coordinate a human rights-based approach in the United Nations system and highlights promising practices of mainstreaming children’s rights in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations human rights mechanisms and investigative and accountability mechanisms. It contains commitments targeted at strengthening the mainstreaming of children’s rights, in the work of both OHCHR and the mechanisms, with an intended ripple effect on the entire United Nations system.