A/HRC/23/18
• The creation of weblinks on each mechanism’s website leading to the webpages of
other human rights mechanisms, and the development of an OHCHR webpage on
regional human rights mechanisms;12 resources, such as information technology
tools, should be made available to human rights mechanisms
51.
With regard to cooperation between United Nations and regional human rights
mechanisms for the prevention of torture, participants suggested:
• The establishment of protocols allowing for the incorporation of recommendations
from regional consultations on the prevention of torture held in Washington D.C.,
Geneva and Addis Ababa into the day-to-day work of United Nations and regional
human rights mechanisms (see paragraphs 39 and 40 above and annexes II, III and
IV)
• Identifying tools to maximise the exchange of non-confidential information
• Consultations and the exchange of information on countries and places to be visited
by United nations and regional human rights mechanisms
• Consultations when drafting thematic reports
• Better communications and systematic exchange of information between national
preventive mechanisms and mechanisms on torture, in particular the Subcommittee
on Prevention of Torture and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Involving national preventive mechanisms in visits by United Nations and regional
mechanisms (if this is not possible, information should be shared with the said
mechanisms in advance)
• Exchanging views and experiences among national preventive mechanisms; the
Council of Europe national preventive mechanism project was mentioned as a good
practice that could be replicated in other regions
• In order to avoid reprisals, sharing information with national preventive
mechanisms, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations
to follow up on the situation of persons who have collaborated with them
B.
Joint activities
1.
Good practices and challenges
52.
Participants discussed joint activities between United Nations and regional human
rights mechanisms, with women’s rights as the underlying theme. Representatives of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Working Group on
the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, the Council of Europe, the
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the ASEAN Commission on the
Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, national human rights
institutions and non-governmental organizations took part in the discussions.
53.
Participants agreed on the importance of cross-referencing their jurisprudence and
recommendations. Reference was made to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
quoting the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, in a ruling on
the case of González y otras (“Campo Algodonero”) v. México regarding the killing of
12
A/HRC/15/56, paras. 63-64.
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