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65.
Info notes should be prepared by both international and regional human rights
mechanisms and distributed every two months among them, in order to circulate
information on their current and forthcoming activities.
66.
Bilateral and multilateral meetings, either regular, ad hoc, general or thematic,
should be held between international, regional and subregional human rights
mechanisms, in order to discuss specific topics or situations, jurisprudence,
publications, reports, guidelines, technical cooperation, follow-up, etc. Regular
meetings should be held between special rapporteurs of both international and
regional human rights mechanisms and members of United Nations human rights
treaty bodies and special procedures.
67.
Mechanisms of cooperation between secretariats of international, regional and
subregional human rights mechanisms should be enhanced or established where they
do not yet exist. Working level cooperation arrangements should set up and the
possibility of putting in place a system for exchange of staff should be considered.
68.
Memorandums of understanding or intent can be established between
international, regional and subregional human rights mechanisms in order to enhance
institutionalized cooperation.
C.
Sharing of information
69.
A system should be put in place aimed at exchanging best practices and lessons
learned between international and regional human rights mechanisms.
70.
Arrangements for regular exchange of jurisprudence between judicial and
quasi-judicial human rights mechanisms should be set up. Such arrangements can
include thematic meetings, as well as compilations of jurisprudence, electronic
bulletins, and bibliographies. A wide dissemination of exchanges between human
rights mechanisms on jurisprudence should be ensured, e.g. by publishing minutes of
thematic meetings, posting compilations of jurisprudence, bulletins and bibliographies
on the respective websites etc.
71.
Specific tools to share information on urgent cases and situations should be
established. This could be facilitated by the secretariats of human rights mechanisms
through desk-to-desk collaboration, with the full participation of NGOs, which often
provide information on urgent cases.
72.
Contributions from regional human rights mechanisms to the UPR should be
increasingly considered as official documents by the Human Rights Council and States
participating in the review. In return, regional human rights mechanisms should be
more proactive in submitting information to the Human Rights Council, regarding
countries to be reviewed by the UPR. In addition, the UPR could take into account the
ratification of regional human rights instruments and implementation of the decisions
and recommendations of regional human rights mechanisms, and vice versa. Regional
human rights mechanisms should be considered by the United Nations and the
international community as relevant partners in assisting States in implementing the
outcome of the UPR, as appropriate.
D.
Joint activities
73.
Independent experts from international and regional human rights mechanisms
should consider conducting joint visits on a more regular basis. A system for sharing
long-term planning of visits of international and regional human rights mechanisms
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