A/HRC/22/21 Human Rights Committee, during its one-hundred-and-sixth session, in October 2012, held a half-day discussion in preparation for its next general comment: an interpretative guidance on article 9 of the Covenant (right to liberty and security of the person, and freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention). 16. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also conducted and participated in training on treaty body reporting and follow-up with regard to Angola, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ecuador, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tunisia and Viet Nam. In 2012, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women undertook one country visit with respect to an established enquiry. The Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture undertook country visits to Argentina, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Moldova and Senegal. 17. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, three anniversary events were held in 2012. The first event was held during the fifty-second session of the Committee, in July 2012, in New York, and was attended by more than 500 people, including senior United Nations officials, the diplomatic community and representatives of civil society. On 18 October 2012, the Committee held another anniversary event, supported by OHCHR and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, which was attended by more than 130 people, including senior United Nations officials, the diplomatic community and representatives of civil society. Two panel discussions were held on the human rights of women in situations of armed conflict and post-conflict, in French-speaking Africa; and on the prospects for the promotion and protection of women’s rights to strengthen peace. A third anniversary event, held on 1 November, in Istanbul, and hosted by the Government of Turkey, attracted more than 150 people, including members of the Government and civil society. The date 26 June 2012 also marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. III. Update on the treaty body strengthening process 18. On 14 September 2009, the High Commissioner, in her statement to the Human Rights Council, called on States parties to human rights treaties and other stakeholders to initiate a process of reflection on how to streamline and strengthen the treaty body system to achieve better coordination among these mechanisms and their interaction with special procedures and the universal periodic review. The High Commissioner made a similar appeal before the General Assembly on 21 October 2009. 19. A number of consultations were organized by stakeholders in direct response to the High Commissioner’s call. In 2012, consultations for States parties were organized in Geneva, on 7 and 8 February, and in New York, on 2 and 3 April. 20. On 16 February 2012, the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/254, installed an open-ended intergovernmental process on treaty body strengthening, which, on 14 September 2012, it extended to its next session (resolution 66/295). To aid the implementation of the above-mentioned resolutions, the President of the General Assembly appointed the Permanent Representatives of Indonesia and of Iceland to the United Nations in New York as co-facilitators for the treaty body strengthening process. 21. In 2012, the High Commissioner submitted a report compiling the proposals made during the consultation process (A/66/860). The objective of the compilation is to identify synergies and potential for future common ground. One of the key proposals reflected in the report is to install a comprehensive reporting calendar. Since the release of the report, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and 5

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