A/HRC/32/42 future cooperation with it and the need for synergy and cooperation in the context of their future activities. 14. On 26 November 2015, in Lusaka, the Special Rapporteur took part in a parallel session of the first African Girls’ Summit on Ending Child Marriage, at which she delivered a statement on successful measures taken at the international level to address the issue of girl child forced marriage as a form of gender-based violence. She also recalled that one of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 5 is the elimination of all harmful practices, such as child and forced marriage, which should be seen as an opportunity to count on additional monitoring mechanisms to overcome a scourge that still affects girls in many parts of the world. She called for a clarification of the terminology used, and proposed the term “girl child forced marriage” whenever appropriate. She also called upon all States to collect data disaggregated by age of the children affected by the forced marriage. 15. On 30 and 31 January 2016, in Ottawa, the mandate holder, jointly with two members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context and the Chair of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, participated in a symposium on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, at which she explained that her mandate could contribute to the follow-up to global and regional recommendations, including the recommendation on the establishment of a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. A joint statement was issued following the symposium, in which participants welcomed the national enquiry set up by Canada. 16. On 4 February 2016, in London, at the invitation of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Special Rapporteur participated in a full-day workshop, for civil society and practitioners tacking violence against women, focused on international and regional approaches, during which the mandate holder explained the role and priorities of the mandate. On 5 February 2016, at the invitation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, she took part in an expert group meeting on updating Committee general recommendation No. 19, and gave her inputs to the draft. 17. From 23 to 26 February 2016, in Guatemala City, the Special Rapporteur took part in a seminar on litigation of cases of violence against women and access to justice to women in Central America. At the event, she made introductory remarks to the seminar and two speeches addressing lawyers, prosecutors and non-governmental organizations litigating cases of violence against women, and judges and magistrates handing down judgements on these crimes. She also participated as an observer in a hearing of the emblematic trial of the Sepur Zarco, organized to mark the first trial where crimes committed against women, including sexual slavery during an armed conflict, were prosecuted in the country where the crimes were actually committed. 18. On 29 February 2016, in New York, the Special Rapporteur participated in a panel discussion on the role of the law, law schools and young lawyers in advancing Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and delivered a statement on how can the Goals, read together with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, could be an important tool in law and in practice. 19. On 7 March 2016, in Algiers, the mandate holder took part in the fifth General Assembly of the Kigali International Conference Declaration, which focused on the role of security organs in ending violence against women and girls. The mandate holder explained the international normative framework and shared best practices in preventing and ending violence against women. She also suggested that the framework of the Declaration was a 7