A/HRC/23/43 were letters of allegation. Details of the communications and responses from Governments are included in the communications reports of special procedures (A/HRC/22/67). B. Other activities 9. From 4 to 6 May 2012, the Special Rapporteur participated in the meeting of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers on the theme “Judicial independence from a State, national, and international perspective”, in Carmel, California, Unites States of America. 10. From 4 to 6 June 2012, the Special Rapporteur participated as speaker in a conference on the role of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and universal standards at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, and in the forty-eighth annual conference of the Inter-American Bar Association on Margarita Island in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 11. From 11 to 15 June 2012, the Special Rapporteur participated in the annual meeting of special procedures mandate holders. 12. On 25 June 2012, the Special Rapporteur presented her annual thematic report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/20/19), as well as her reports on her official visits to Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey (A/HRC/20/19/Add.1 to Add.3). She also presented an advance report on her global thematic study on human rights education and the training of legal professionals (A/HRC/20/20). She also participated as a panellist in a side event on the issue of the stoning of women. 13. On 26 and 27 September 2012, she participated in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions for Human Rights, held in Warsaw. 14. From 30 September to 1 October 2012, she participated in the opening of the Legal Year of England and Wales. 15. On 24 October 2012, the Special Rapporteur presented her annual report to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session (A/67/305). 16. From 28 October to 1 November 2012, the Special Rapporteur attended the seventeenth Annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors, held in Bangkok, and organized a panel discussion on the theme of the prosecution of organized crime. 17. On 7 November 2012, the Special Rapporteur attended an award ceremony organized in Brasilia by the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association and the Innovare Institute, in Brazil. 18. On 28 and 29 November 2012, the Special Rapporteur organized, with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, a subregional consultation in Panama City on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary in Central America. A summary of its proceedings and conclusions is contained in an addendum to the present report (A/HRC/23/43/Add.3). 19. On 10 December 2012, the Special Rapporteur participated, with the members of the Commonwealth Magistrates‟ and Judges‟ Association, the International Association of Prosecutors and Lawyers for Lawyers, in a meeting organized in Amsterdam by the law firm Kennedy Van der Laan to celebrate International Human Rights Day. 4