A/HRC/28/41 security, with a focus on “displaced women and girls: leaders and survivors”. The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples attended the Forum on Indigenous peoples, held in New York in May, and the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, in September. Similarly, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, attended the fifty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March, while the Special Rapporteur on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons addressed the Openended Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons at its fifth session, in July. 22. In 2014, 12 mandate holders participated in panel discussions held during the sessions of the Human Rights Council. As a result of two consecutive reports submitted by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights on the issue of historical and memorial narratives in divided societies,17 the Council decided to convene, at its twenty-seventh session, a panel discussion on the issue. The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence participated in the ensuing discussion as a panellist, reflecting the linkages between the two mandates on this issue. 23. Following a recommendation of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, the Council convened a panel discussion during its twenty-seventh session on the use of remotely piloted aircraft or armed drones in counter-terrorism and military operations, with the participation of the Special Rapporteur and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. 24. Mandate holders continued to organize expert meetings on topics of relevance to their respective mandate. In November 2014, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance convened an expert meeting on the dilemmas and challenges faced in combating the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers. The outcome of the meeting will inform his thematic report to be submitted to the Council at its twenty-ninth session. 25. Under the guidance of the Working Group on Business and Human Rights, the third annual Forum on Business and Human Rights was held in Geneva from 1 to 3 December 2014, and saw the participation of some 2,000 representatives of the private sector, Governments and civil society. The theme of the Forum was “Advancing business and human rights globally: alignment, adherence and accountability”. The report of the Forum will be presented to the Council at its twenty-ninth session.18 26. On 25 and 26 November 2014, the Forum on Minority Issues held its seventh session under the leadership of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues. 19 Some 570 participants attended the Forum, including representatives of Member States, nongovernmental organizations and United Nations and regional intergovernmental bodies. The debate focused on the theme “Preventing and addressing violence and atrocity crimes targeted against minorities”. The recommendations of the Forum will be presented to the Council at its twenty-eighth session. 27. The substantive inputs of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent contributed greatly to the adoption on 18 November 2014 by the General Assembly of a programme of activities for the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) with the theme “People of African descent: 17 18 19 A/68/296 and A/HRC/25/49. A/HRC/29/29. See A/HRC/28/77. 7