A/HRC/28/28 she highlighted areas of ongoing concern and urged the Committee to continue its efforts to address all human rights issues relevant to the implementation of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005), including by promoting such good practices as reviewing counter-terrorism legislation before adoption, time-limited laws, independent oversight bodies for law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and periodic review of sanction measures. 6. OHCHR has continued to address complex legal and policy challenges relating to new technologies that are of direct relevance to States’ efforts to counter terrorism. From November 2013 to March 2014, the Office partnered with the United Nations University in a research project on the application of international human rights law to national regimes overseeing governmental digital surveillance. It also launched an open consultation in February 2014, inviting the input of stakeholders on the basis of a questionnaire on the right to privacy in the context of domestic and extraterritorial surveillance. Also in February, the previous High Commissioner delivered a keynote address to an expert seminar organized by a group of States led by Germany and Brazil, and facilitated by the Geneva Academy on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, in which she outlined challenges to ensuring the right to privacy in the context of domestic and extraterritorial surveillance. 7. Drawing on these and other sources of information, as mandated by the General Assembly in its resolution 68/167, OHCHR prepared a report on the right to privacy in the digital age to the Human Rights Council.2 In the report, OHCHR examined the protection afforded by international human rights law regarding privacy, including the meaning of “interference with privacy” in online communications, the definition of “arbitrary and unlawful” interference in this context, and the question of whose rights are protected, and where. Following consideration of the report by the Human Rights Council at its twentyseventh session and the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, the Assembly adopted resolution A/C.3/69/L.26/Rev.1, which included a number of proposed follow-up measures. 8. Issues of relevance in the context of counter-terrorism were also addressed during expert panel discussions organized by the Office, on the right to privacy in the digital age, pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 25/117, held on 12 September 2014, 3and on ensuring the use of armed drones in counter-terrorism and military operations in accordance with international law, pursuant to Council resolution 25/22, held on 22 September 2014.4 9. The Office promoted a greater integration of a gender perspective into the context of counter-terrorism by contributing to a workshop held on 21 and 22 October 2014 on the theme “Advancing women’s roles in countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism”, organized in Vienna by the Global Counterterrorism Forum and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and a panel discussion on the theme “The role of women in countering violent extremism” organized by the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, held on 27 October 2014 within the framework of the open debate of the Security Council on women, peace and security. B. Activities of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force 10. The Office is an active member of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force and promotes the mainstreaming of human rights across the work of the Task Force 2 3 4 4 A/HRC/27/37. See A/HRC/28/38. A/HRC/28/39.