A/HRC/15/56 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 19

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