A/HRC/24/38 (d) On 5 April 2013, he contributed a paper to the Workshop on the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights.2 9. Furthermore, he participated, inter alia, in: (a) A conference hosted by Earth Focus in Geneva, on 10 December 2012, on the occasion of 2012 Human Rights Day. (b) A panel discussion commemorating the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, organized by several missions and UNICEF on 6 February 2013. (c) A meeting analysing the Declaration on the right to peace, organized by the CSO Coalition on the Human Right to Peace, on 11 March 2013. (d) A lecture on the scope of his mandate at the University of Middlesex 7–8 March 2013; and two lectures at the University of Nottingham, on 8 and 9 March 2013. (e) A seminar, entitled “A Democratic New International Economic Order”, organized by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, in Paris, 23–24 May 2013. 10. In light of Council resolution 21/9, the Independent Expert interacted with academia, think tanks and research institutes, including the South Center, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Committee for a Democratic United Nations, the Kofi Annan Foundation, the International Commission of Jurists, and CETIM. On 11 October 2012 he held a working session with the Executive Director of South Center and also met with the Secretary General of the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union. On 25 February he met with professors of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights concerning the Swiss Initiative to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary anniversary of the Universal of Human Rights, and on 6 March with representatives of the International Commission of Jurists on the World Court on Human Rights.3 11. In December 2012 he published, together with Ms. Aurea Roldan, an analysis of the Human Rights Committee’s General Comment 34 on “Freedom of Opinion and Freedom of Expression” in the Netherlands International Law Review (vol. LIX, pp. 425-455), and the role of access to information and freedom of the media in ensuring a democratic international order. III. Democratic and equitable deficits 12. A democratic and equitable international order is inherent in the fundamental human rights that humanity shares.4 It is achievable, step-by-step, when every country and people act at the local, regional and international levels, aware that such an international order must be based on the United Nations Charter and the human rights treaties, which together make up what we can safely call the Constitution of the modern world, subject, of course, 2 3 4 4 See http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Seminars/Pages/WorkshopCoerciveMeasures.aspx, chapter 7.1 on United States exceptionalism and unilateralism in Rosa Freedman, The United Nations Human Rights Council, Routledge 2013, pp. 151–154. See http://www.udhr60.ch/docs/World-court-final1211%20.pdf; http://www.udhr60.ch/ See e.g. http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/democracy/human_rights.shtml; http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/democracy/democracy_and_un.shtml; http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/rule_of_law/democracy.htm; Democracy, Human Rights and the Emerging Global Order, a Workshop hosted by the Brookings Institution’s Managing Global Order project, 29–30 November 2012.