A/HRC/40/38/Add.1 Mandate Description of events organized by mandate holders with racial-equality focused youth organization grantees of the Ford Foundation. In the second event, she organized a side event about ascendant nationalist populist ideologies and strategies sobering threat to racial equality. In November, the Special Rapporteur, along with the University of Geneva, coorganized a workshop entitled “human rights, racial equality and new information: mapping the structural threats”. Special Rapporteur on freedom On 28 June 2018, the Special Rapporteur co-convened, with the American Jewish of religion or belief Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, an expert stakeholder consultation in Geneva on monitoring and combatting antisemitism. Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material On 11 October, the Special Rapporteur organized an expert meeting on effectively implementing the SDGs from a child rights perspective at the margins of her presentation to the UN General Assembly. The meeting brought together key child rights stakeholders involved in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and was aimed at discussing strategies to ensure that the 2019 Voluntary National Reviews and the High-level Political Forum effectively integrate a child rights perspective and to follow up on the recommendations of her report to the UN General Assembly (A/73/174). Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity On 19 June, the Independent Expert organized an open consultation on the legal recognition of gender identity and destigmatization through depathologization. Representatives of States, UN agencies, programmes and funds, civil society organizations, religious communities and interfaith groups, medical professionals and other interested stakeholders participated in the consultation. In addition, a consultation with trans human rights defenders and meetings with various experts took place in June 2018. These consultations, as well as written submissions, provided inputs for the preparation of the thematic report that was presented at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in October 2018 (A/73/152). The Independent Expert acted as the focal point for the UN human rights mechanisms for the organization of the second joint thematic dialogue on sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex related issues between the IACHR, the ACHPR, and UN human rights mechanisms that was held from 26 to 28 March. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and its consequences From 11 to 12 April, the Special Rapporteur held an expert roundtable, which was attended by survivors, the ILO and NGO representatives, on “the gender dimension of contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences: challenges, opportunities and strategies to eradicate the phenomena and their particular effect on women and girls”, which provided input for the thematic report on the issue that was presented at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (A/73/139). On 26 October, the Special Rapporteur and the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons held a joint side event at UNHQ in New York on the gendered dimensions of contemporary forms of slavery and of trafficking in persons. The event was moderated by the ILO Director in New York and panellists included the two Special Rapporteurs, a representative of the UN University, the Freedom Fund and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children In February 2018, the Special Rapporteur, in addition to the visit previously carried out in Catania (Italy) in October 2017, undertook two additional thematic visits to Portugal and FRONTEX HQ to inform her thematic report on early identification, referral and assistance of victims and potential victims of trafficking in persons in mixed migration movements, which was presented at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2018 (A/HRC/38/45). On 1 March, the Special Rapporteur organized an expert consultation with multistakeholder initiatives and trade unions on the importance of integrating workers’ 72