A/HRC/21/51 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. 5

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