A/HRC/38/39
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 April 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 the human rights of
internally displaced persons
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia
Jimenez-Damary. It provides a review of the progress achieved, the ongoing challenges and
the necessary actions to be taken by all stakeholders in the implementation of the Guiding
Principles on Internal Displacement, in the context of their twentieth anniversary.
GE.18-05711(E)