A/HRC/4/33 page 10 29. On 27 September 2006, the Special Rapporteur held meetings in Strasbourg, France, with the Director and staff of the Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights on matters of mutual interest, including working methods and future areas of cooperation. 30. On 23 October 2006, the Special Rapporteur presented his report to the General Assembly in New York, followed by a press conference. 31. On 24 October 2006, at the invitation of the International Centre for Transitional Justice in New York, the Special Rapporteur participated in consultations to discuss the role of the Special Rapporteur and on ways and means of collaborating with the organization. 32. On 7 November 2006, he was invited to participate in the Journalists Forum on Human Rights, organized by United Nations Information Centre in Vienna. 33. On 8 November 2006, the Special Rapporteur was the keynote speaker at an event organized by the Hamburger Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Demokratie und des Voelkerrechts (Hamburg Society for the Promotion of Democracy and International Law) entitled, “How much torture can democracy bear?” 34. On 9 November 2006, he introduced a film, Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the “War on Terror”, organized by the Young Democrats Abroad and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna. 35. From 13 to 17 November 2006, the Special Rapporteur participated in the fortieth ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, including in the NGO Forum, which preceded it. Further details are described in the section below on regional cooperation. 36. On 22 and 23 November, the Special Rapporteur participated in a National Consultative Forum on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention in Paraguay. The Forum was held in Asunción and was jointly organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the NGO network CODEHUPY and the Geneva-based NGO, the Association for the Prevention of Torture. The objective of the Forum was to debate the nature of the national preventive mechanism, which the Government is obliged to designate under the Optional Protocol, and to make relevant recommendations. The Forum brought together the most relevant national actors working in the areas of torture prevention and detention, and participants included representatives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and Labour, the Ministry of the Interior, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Office of the Ombudsman, parliamentarians, representatives of NGOs and international experts. 37. On 7 December 2006, to mark Human Rights Day (10 December), the Special Rapporteur was invited by the London School of Economics to deliver a public lecture entitled “Human rights: Some old truths and necessary new directions”. 38. On 10 December 2006, the Special Rapporteur delivered the keynote speech at the IX International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) International Symposium on Torture, “Providing Reparation and Treatment, Preventing Impunity”, held in Berlin.