A/HRC/24/42 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,6 on the call for the post2015 development agenda to be urgently refocused with respect to equality, social protection and accountability,7 and on the call to Governments to ensure that victims of torture and their families obtain redress and rehabilitation.8 C. Other activities 8. In September 2012, the Special Rapporteur presented his first report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/21/46) on the mandate’s foundations and implementation strategy. On that occasion, he met with the Ambassadors of Argentina, Nepal, the Republic of Korea and Tunisia, and was a panellist in a side event organized by Impunity Watch and in the high-level discussion on the role of judges and lawyers in transition, organized by the International Commission of Jurists. 9. The Special Rapporteur delivered the keynote speech at the international conference on “Right to truth, reparation and reforms: achievements of and perspectives for transitional justice”, held in Rabat on 14 and 15 January 2013. 10. He participated in a conference on “Integrating transitional justice, security and development”, held from 17 to 19 January by Wilton Park, Switzerland and Norway, with an intervention on “Linking human rights, justice, security and development”. 11. On 22 January, the Special Rapporteur participated in the Development Talk on “Institutions and democratic governance”, organized by Sweden in Stockholm, with a keynote speech on transitional justice and development. 12. He participated in the panel discussion on transitional justice and genocide prevention at the conference on the theory, policy and practice of mass atrocity prevention, held on 25 and 26 February by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. 13. On 27 February, the Special Rapporteur gave the keynote speech at the International Expert Seminar on “Access to justice for indigenous peoples including truth and reconciliation processes”, co-organized by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the International Center for Transitional Justice. 14. From 22 to 24 April, the mandate participated in a regional conference on the topic “For a strengthened effectiveness of transitional justice processes”, held in Yaoundé, coorganized by OHCHR, France and Switzerland. 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13204&LangID=E. Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13330&LangID=S; and http://www.ohchr.org/SP/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13249&LangID=S. Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/SP/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13486&LangID=S. Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13310&LangID=E. Available at http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13341&LangID=E. Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13482&LangID=E.