A/HRC/21/39 Annex I [English only] Historic overview of the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights 1. Considering that the drafting process of the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights has been extended over more than a decade, during which time several consultations have taken place with States and other stakeholders, this Annex provides an overview of the process and makes reference to the key resolutions and United Nations documents that the process has generated with the objective of facilitating understanding of the process. 2001 – 2006: initial work done by the Sub-Commission ad hoc group of experts 2. In 2001, the Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 2001/31, paragraph 7(a) requested the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (hereafter referred to as the Sub-Commission) to consider the need to develop guiding principles on the implementation of existing human rights norms and standards in the context of the fight against extreme poverty. 3. According to the resolution, the guiding principles were to be drafted on the basis of various relevant international texts, ongoing work in other forums, and any other relevant inputs, in particular those received from States. The same resolution, in paragraph 7(b), also invited States, United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes, the relevant functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, the regional economic commissions and the international financial institutions to submit their views on this subject to the Sub-Commission. 4. In response, the Sub-Commission entrusted (resolution 2001/8, from August 2001) an ad hoc group of experts, coordinated by Mr. José Bengoa (Chile), to prepare a working paper on the subject of developing these guiding principles. After extensive consultations, including regional seminars held in Bangkok (Thailand), Pierrelaye (France), Pune (India) and Sao Paulo (Brazil), as well as the sessions of the Social Forum, the ad hoc group of experts submitted its final report and a text of draft Guiding Principles (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/16) to the Sub-Commission, at its 58th session in June 2006. 5. By resolution 2006/9 (August 2006) the Sub-Commission welcomed and approved the “draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor” (hereafter referred to as the draft Guiding Principles), and requested the Human Rights Council to study these Guiding Principles, in consultation with experts, persons living in extreme poverty and associations committed to working alongside with them, with a view to adopting them and forwarding them to the General Assembly. 6. In its resolution 2/2 of November 2006, the Human Rights Council took note of the Sub Commission’s draft, and, in its paragraph 3, requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (High Commissioner) to circulate the draft Guiding Principles to obtain the views of States, relevant United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organizations, United Nations treaty bodies and special procedures mandate holders, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organisations, 25