A/HRC/36/38 (c) One of the Vice-Chairs shall be the Working Group’s focal point for individual complaints; the other shall be the focal point for follow-up on all actions taken by the Working Group; (d) In the exercise of their functions, the Chair-Rapporteur and the Vice-Chairs shall remain under the authority of the Working Group. In the absence of the ChairRapporteur, one of the Vice-Chairs shall temporarily assume the assigned functions of the Chair-Rapporteur as required by the circumstances; (e) Each of these three officers shall report fully to the Working Group at the beginning of each session on activities they have undertaken during the intersessional period, and on any activity undertaken during a session without the other members of the Working Group; (f) interest. The Working Group can appoint at any time a rapporteur on specific issues of 4. The Working Group meets at least three times a year, for at least five to eight working days, generally in Geneva. 5. When the case under consideration or the country visit concerns a country of which one of the members of the Working Group is a national, or in other situations where there may be a conflict of interest, that member shall not participate in the discussion of the case, in the visit or in the preparation of the report on the visit. 6. During the course of its deliberations, when dealing with individual cases or situations, the Working Group renders opinions, which are listed in the annual report it submits to the Human Rights Council. The opinions of the Working Group are the result of consensus; where consensus is not reached, the view of a majority of the members of the Working Group is adopted as the view of the Working Group. III. Implementation of the mandate of the Working Group 7. The mandate of the Working Group is to investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily. In the discharge of its mandate, the Working Group refers to the relevant international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as to the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned, in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and, when appropriate, any other relevant standards, including the following: (a) The Convention on the Rights of the Child; (b) The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (c) The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; (d) The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (e) The Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment; (f) The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules); (g) Liberty; The United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their (h) The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules); 2