A/HRC/38/25 Human Rights and Freedoms of the Parliament of Montenegro. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Joint Committee on Human Rights monitors the Government’s fulfilment of its international human rights obligations, for example, reporting on the State’s compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and refers in its legislative scrutiny work to the relevant treaty body and universal periodic review recommendations. Joint Committee staff also regularly attend the meetings of the Treaty Monitoring Working Group convened by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (the national human rights institution). 40. In its response to the questionnaire, the Parliament of the United Kingdom stated that the ways in which individual parliaments consider human rights are closely related to their constitutions and legal frameworks. It emphasized parliamentary autonomy, and the fact that the Government of the United Kingdom is accountable to Parliament, and not vice versa. 41. In terms of engagement with the international human rights mechanisms, replies from countries belonging to the Group of Western European and other States and the Eastern European Group show that 13 out of 17 parliamentary human rights committees meet with visiting special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council. With regard to the participation of parliamentary human rights committees in government delegations to the treaty bodies or the universal periodic review, the parliamentary human rights committee of Georgia takes part in government delegations to treaty bodies and the universal periodic review, while those of Serbia and Andorra only take part in delegations to treaty bodies (in the case of Andorra, as an observer). 42. The majority of the responses from the Latin American and the Caribbean Group countries suggest that the role of parliamentary human rights committees is defined within the context of the national legislative process, where recommendations may be taken into account in the discussion and drafting of national legislation. Based on the responses to the questionnaire, the only parliamentary human rights committee to participate in the universal periodic review and the Human Rights Council as a part of the delegation of its Government is that of Honduras. Only the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Mexico indicated that their parliamentary human rights committees were involved in the national mechanism for reporting and follow-up. 43. The parliamentary human rights committees of Mexico and Colombia also took part in the development or monitoring of a national human rights action plan. The Commission on Human Rights and Hearings of the Congress of Colombia also developed monitoring matrices. 44. Of the responses received, four out of five confirmed that parliamentary human rights committees interacted with visiting special procedure mandate holders or United Nations officials. 45. Responses relating to the Asia-Pacific Group show a link with the international human rights mechanisms. Commission III (Law and Legislation, Human Rights and Security Affairs) of the Indonesian parliament, and the Social Justice and Human Rights Committee of the parliament of Nepal oversee their respective Governments’ treaty obligations and political commitments made within the context of the universal periodic review. Both replies received in that regard also stated that the bodies in question follow up recommendations received by their respective States. The reply of the Standing Committees on Human Rights of both houses of the Parliament of Pakistan shows that the Standing Committees deal with all the issues of implementation, monitoring and reporting relating to ratified international human rights treaties, and follow up the recommendations received by the State. The Standing Committees also work in close coordination with the national human rights institution. 46. The Social Justice and Human Rights Committee of the parliament of Nepal stated that it provides input into the Government’s position before intergovernmental bodies, in particular the Human Rights Council. 9