A/72/502
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 October 2017
Original: English
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Extreme poverty and human rights*
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the
report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip
Alston, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 35/19.
* The present report was submitted after the deadline so as to include the most recent information.
17-17427 (E)
191017
*1717427*