A/HRC/38/33
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 May 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-eighth session
18 June–6 July 2018
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and
human rights
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, prepared
pursuant to Council resolution 35/19, focusing on the International Monetary Fund and its
impact on social protection.
GE.18-07322(E)