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issues falling within their mandates have a differential impact on the enjoyment by women
of their human rights. OHCHR is analysing the work of mandate holders in this area in
order to provide them with updated information.
7.
Attention was drawn to the OHCHR Management Plan 2012 and the annual report
for 2011. One of the six thematic strategies of OHCHR focuses specifically on
strengthening human rights mechanisms, including the special procedures, while their work
has also contributed to the development of the other thematic strategies of the Management
Plan. Examples of special procedures activities and results included in these reports were
highlighted.
8.
The participants elected the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in
Haiti, Michel Forst, Chairperson of the meeting and the Coordination Committee. The
Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, was
elected Rapporteur and member of the Coordination Committee. The Special Rapporteur on
the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyani, the Special Rapporteur
on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, and a member of the Working Group
on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises,
Puvan J. Selvanathan, were endorsed as members of the Committee. Farida Shaheed, as
former Chairperson, will remain an ex officio member for the coming year.
9.
The provisional agenda of the meeting was adopted as revised.
III. Activities of the Coordination Committee
10.
The former Chairperson of the Coordination Committee briefed participants on the
activities of the Committee in 2011/12, noting that it had focused on strengthening
engagement with various stakeholders, including the Human Rights Council, States and
regional human rights systems. Emphasis had also been placed on identifying situations and
cross-cutting issues of common concern to mandate holders.
11.
Pursuant to the standing invitation to mandate holders to participate in special
sessions of the Human Rights Council, the outcome of a discussion between the President
of the Council and the Coordination Committee Chairperson in November 2008,
arrangements were made to facilitate contributions of special procedures at special sessions.
Mandate holders presented statements on behalf of all special procedures at the special
sessions on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic, which were held on
22 August and 2 December 2011, and 1 June 2012. The Chairperson also presented a
statement on behalf of all special procedures during the high-level panel discussion on
mainstreaming human rights, convened during the nineteenth session of the Council.
12.
The Chairperson and the Rapporteur met with the President of the Human Rights
Council twice to discuss the interaction of mandate holders with the Council and exchange
views on issues of mutual concern. The Chairperson met with representatives of various
regional groups of States to strengthen dialogue between special procedures and States.
Cooperation with the African regional system for human rights was strengthened. The
Chairperson, together with eight other mandate holders, including two Coordination
Committee members, participated in a dialogue between special procedures of the Council
and of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Addis Ababa on 17 and
18 January 2012, organized by OHCHR in cooperation with the African Commission on
Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Union Commission. A working group of the
special procedures of the United Nations and the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights was established.
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