A/HRC/19/58 19. On 7 March 2011, the Chair-Rapporteur, Mr. Jeremy Sarkin, presented the Working Group’s 2010 annual report to the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council and participated in the interactive dialogue with Member States. During the reporting period, the Chair-Rapporteur made a series of presentations, including a paper on ―How to Guarantee Non-Repetition of Human Rights Violations in Transitional Societies‖ to the conference Shaping a Truth and Reconciliation Mechanism for Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi, November 2010; papers on ―Designing National Legislation on Enforced Disappearances‖ and ―Designing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions‖ to a Workshop for Nepal Parliamentarians on Transitional Justice Processes, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 2010; a paper on ―Disappearances and Secret Prisons‖ to the National University of Timor-Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste, February 2011; a paper on ―Criminalization of gross human rights violations, including enforced disappearances within the follow up work of truth commissions‖ to a Side Event at the Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2011; a paper on ―Preventing Impunity and Eradicating the Crime of Enforced Disappearance‖ to a Side Event at the Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2011; a paper on ―Guaranteeing the non-repetition of human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo‖ to the Conference ―Options for Transitional justice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Impunity, Amnesty and Reparations, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 2011; a paper on ―The Legal Protection of Children from Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances‖ to the United Nations expert meeting: ―The legal framework required to prohibit, prevent and respond to all forms of violence against children‖, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2011; a paper on ―The Interface between International and Domestic Criminal Justice‖ to the Prosecutor-General and Prosecutors, held in Male, Maldives, September, 2011; a paper on ―Dealing with Enforced Disappearances in Timor-Leste: Promoting Truth, Justice, Reparations and Reconciliation" to the Law School, Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, October 2011; and a paper on ―Developing Cooperative Strategies between the Committee on Enforced Disappearance and the Working Group on Enforced on Involuntary Disappearances‖ to the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) Conference on the Universal Implementation of the Convention Against Enforced Disappearances: A Task and a Challenge, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2011. During the year he also made a number of other conference presentations and gave a number of mandate-related trainings around the world. 20. Ms. Jasminka Dzumhur made a series of presentations, including of a paper on ―The Promotion of Human Rights and Documentary Movie‖ to a side event to the Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, July 2011; a paper on ―The International Mechanisms for Protection of the Rights of Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances‖ to the Meeting of the Regional Coordination Body of Victims Association form Balkans, Sarajevo, July 2011; a paper on ―Women Victims in the Post-Conflict Countries‖ to the Conference organized by ―Kvinna till Kvinna‖, Jahorina, Sarajevo, October 2011; and a paper on ―UNSCR 1325: Moving Beyond Theory to Maximize Security in the OSCE‖ to the Conference organized by the OSCE Vienna, Sarajevo, October 2011. 21. During the reporting period, all the members of the Working Group carried out a number of activities connected to enforced disappearances which include their participation in seminars, trainings, workshops and lectures. B. Meetings 22. During the period under review, representatives of the Governments of Algeria, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Guatemala, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, and Serbia attended the sessions of the Working Group. A number of other bilateral meetings were held with various States during the year. 9

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