A/HRC/9/21 page 5 10. The Special Rapporteur also attended the briefing organized by the Special Procedures Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on 19 and 20 June 2008. 11. From 23 to 27 June 2008 the Special Rapporteur attended the fifteenth annual meeting of special rapporteurs/representatives, independent experts and chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and of the advisory services programme, which enabled her to meet with fellow special rapporteurs and hold bilateral consultations with a number of them. 12. On 16 July 2008 the Special Rapporteur joined with nine other special procedures mandate holders1 in expressing concern with respect to European Community Directive 2008/.../EC, on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (the “Return Directive”) adopted by the European Parliament on 18 June 2008.2 13. As part of her commitment to continuing with the work of her predecessor, who had requested an invitation from the Governments of Estonia and Latvia, the Special Rapporteur renewed that request by letter dated 29 July 2008, emphasizing the value of these visits for the implementation of her mandate. 14. During July, the Special Rapporteur also sent letters to the Governments of Cambodia, Chile, India and Thailand reiterating the requests for visits made by her predecessor. II. MANDATE ON THE SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY A. Approach 15. The Special Rapporteur will seek to ensure continuity in the implementation of the mandate and will base her work to a large extent on that of her predecessors. She will seek to consolidate their efforts and, on the basis of her own experience, her vision of the situation and methodological developments in the special procedures system, will explore new directions in which to develop the mandate. 1 The Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Special Rapporteur on the right to education; the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants; the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; the independent expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights; the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; the independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Haiti. 2 See document COM (2005) 0391 - C6-0266/2005 - 2005/0167 (COD), available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.sjp?id=5269672.