A/HRC/41/42 8. From 6 to 9 November 2018, with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) regional office for Europe, the Special Rapporteur organized a visit to Brussels, during which she launched her report on online violence against women and girls and her report on violence against women in politics. She also attended bilateral meetings with various high-level representatives of the European Union, including the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission and the European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development. She discussed the need for additional support for the mandate, as well as opportunities for collaboration between the mandate and the joint European Union-United Nations Spotlight Initiative to eliminate violence against women and girls.5 In addition, she co-organized a side event at the European Parliament on online violence against women in politics and held meetings with various civil society organizations. 9. On 14 December 2018, the Special Rapporteur participated in a high-level consultation meeting with States members of the African Union on the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol), and a panel meeting on celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Maputo Protocol, at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa. 10. On 16 and 17 January 2019, the Special Rapporteur attended a consultation meeting on femicide, held in Vilnius by the European Institute for Gender Equality and the European Observatory on Femicide. The purpose of the meeting was to develop modalities for the collection of comparable data on femicide. 11. On 26 and 27 January 2019, the Special Rapporteur participated in a global convention on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration, held in Bangkok by the International Women Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific. She also provided a written submission 6 to the Committee for its general discussion on the new general recommendation on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration. 12. From 11 to 22 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur participated in the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, at which she delivered an oral report. 7 She also organized two side events, entitled “Twenty-five years of the mandate and the femicide watch initiative” and “The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and general recommendation No. 35”. Moreover, in conjunction with Facebook, she organized an event on the issue of online violence against women and girls and nonconsensual distribution of intimate images. In the margins of the session, the Special Rapporteur convened an informal meeting of members of the Platform of independent international and regional mechanisms on violence against women and women’s rights.8 13. On 24 November 2018, to mark International Day on the Elimination of Violence against women, the Special Rapporteur and members of the Platform issued a joint statement in which they welcomed data from a number of States and stakeholders on femicide and reiterated their call for the global adoption of a femicide prevention watch or observatory on gender-related killing.9 14. The Special Rapporteur conducted a country visit to Nepal from 19 to 29 November 2018 (A/HRC/41/42/Add.1). 15. Since June 2018, the Special Rapporteur, including jointly with other mandate holders, has addressed more than 50 communications and issued several press releases and statements jointly with other human rights mechanisms. 5 6 7 8 9 4 See www.un.org/en/spotlight-initiative/. See www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/GRTrafficking.aspx. https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24339& LangID=E. Available from www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/CooperationGlobal RegionalMechanisms.aspx. See www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23924&LangID=E.