A/HRC/23/18 Commission on Human Rights, the Fundamental Rights Agency, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the Council of Europe, including the European Court of Human Rights. 43. In January 2011, OHCHR, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) organized a study visit to Geneva and Strasbourg for the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children in order to assist its members and staff in developing working methods and identifying priority issues and ways to cooperate with United Nations human rights mechanisms and bodies. Commission representatives met with staff from OHCHR, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. 44. In July 2012, OHCHR organized a study visit for the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission for its commissioners to gain knowledge of United Nations human rights mechanisms and to explore possible ways of cooperation between them. They also attended the twentieth session of the Human Rights Council. In December 2012, some commissioners carried out a study visit to United Nations Headquarters. III. Enhancing cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms 45. The workshop focused on the three main areas of cooperation identified at the workshop held in 2010: information-sharing, joint activities and follow-up to recommendations of United Nations and regional human rights mechanisms. For each of these areas, an underlying theme of discussion allowed participants to hold concrete discussions and to produce solid recommendations. In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 18/14, the themes were selected taking into account concrete and practical experience of regional mechanisms and based on the consultations held with regional human rights mechanisms and Member States (see paragraphs 5 and 6 above). The underlying themes were: • For information-sharing: prevention of torture • For joint activities: women’s rights • For follow-up to recommendations: the rights of the child A. 1. Information-sharing Good practices and challenges 46. Participants from the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Committee against Torture, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, national human rights institutions, national preventive mechanisms and non-governmental organizations agreed on the importance of sharing information for the coherence and consistency of international human rights standards and jurisprudence, as well as to avoid duplication and contradictions. 47. Confidentiality was identified as one of the main challenges to information-sharing. Participants shared the view that there was information that could be easily shared, such as the legal framework, trends, methods of work, calendars, programmes of visits and 11