A/HRC/13/22 Pending requests 9. As of December 2009, the Special Rapporteur has the following outstanding visit requests: Belarus (2002, 2003, 2004), Bhutan (2001, 2002), Chad (2002, 2003, 2004), China (2008), Egypt (2003, 2008), Equatorial Guinea (2002), India (2002, 2003, 2004), Kenya (2003, 2004), Malaysia (2002), Mozambique (2003, 2004), Nepal (2003, 2004, 2005, 2008), Pakistan (2003, 2007, 2008), the Philippines (2008), the Russian Federation (2004), Singapore (2002, 2004), Sri Lanka (2008), the Syrian Arab Republic (2008), Tunisia (2002, 2004, 2008), Turkmenistan (2003, 2004), Uzbekistan (2001, 2004, 2007), the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2007, 2008) and Zimbabwe (2002, 2004, 2008). The Special Rapporteur regrets that some of these requests are long-standing, and hopes that States will give due attention to all her requests. C. Cooperation with the United Nations system and intergovernmental organizations 10. The Special Rapporteur has continued to place particular emphasis on cooperation with all bodies of the United Nations and other regional intergovernmental human rights organizations. 11. Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 10/33, the Special Rapporteur was mandated, along with six other thematic special procedure mandate holders, to report on the progress made with regard to technical assistance to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the development of the situation in the east of the country. 12. From 29 June to 3 July 2009, the Special Rapporteur attended the 16th Annual Meeting of Special Procedures in Geneva. 13. On 21 and 22 October 2009, the Special Rapporteur participated in an intermechanisms meeting organized jointly by the International Federation for Human Rights and the World Organization against Torture and hosted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Additional participants to the meeting included the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, representatives of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). 14. On 23 October 2009, the Special Rapporteur presented her second report to the General Assembly.1 The report focused on the right to freedom of association, the content of the right and its implementation in practice. In the report, the Special Rapporteur provided an analysis of the legal framework for the protection of the right to freedom of association at the international and regional levels. She described the scope and content of the right and analysed what constitutes permissible restrictions. The report depicted the case law and work of the monitoring mechanisms. It also illustrated cases presented to both international and regional mechanisms and showed how the different systems complement and reinforce each other. The Special Rapporteur highlighted the main trends in the implementation of the right to freedom of association, including the difficulties in forming and registering human rights associations and criminal sanctions for unregistered activities; the denial of registration and deregistration; and burdensome and lengthy registration procedures. She also provided examples of restriction on the registration of international NGOs, government supervision and monitoring, and administrative and judicial harassment. The report contained examples of restrictions relating to access to funding. The 1 4 A/64/226. GE.10-10012