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Law Commission on the Draft Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes
against Humanity.
7.
During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur participated in several
meetings and events, some of which included:
• Meeting on the killing of women and LGBTI persons organised at the United
Nations in New York, by the Permanent Mission of Finland and MADRE
(March 2018);
• Colloquium on the rights of missing and dead migrants and refugees in Lesbos
(May 2018);
• 13th Annual Bar Leaders’ Conference held in Oslo (May 2018);
• 2018 World Congress on Justice for Children held in Paris (May 2018);
• Video-conference on large-scale human rights violations in Indianadministered Jammu and Kashmir organised by the University of Warwick
(July 2018);
• Launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group’s report on “The UK’s Use of
Armed Drones: Working with Partners” (July 2018);
• Panel discussion on “Juvenile executions in the world today”, organised in
London by the All-Party Parliamentary Group in cooperation with Reprieve
(July 2018);
• Annual consultation on environmental justice, organised by the Asia-Pacific
Forum on Women, Law and Development; an expert meeting on drones
warfare at the University of Oxford (September 2018);
• Meeting of the Migration Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (September 2018);
• Meeting on the rights of LGBTI persons organised by the Permanent Mission
of The Netherlands in New York (September 2018);
• Expert group meeting on “The application of international standards in
situations of unconventional violence” organised by UNDP (October 2018);
• Human Rights Defenders World Summit held in Paris (October 2018);
• Meeting on Non-State Actors organised, in Geneva, by the Geneva Academy
of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (November 2018).
8.
The Special Rapporteur also participated in side-events organised within the margins
of the 38th and 39th regular sessions of the Human Rights Council as well as the 73 rd session
of the General Assembly.
9.
The Special Rapporteur was a lecturer in the Summer 2018 Oxford University
Master’s in International Human Rights Law, teaching the course on right to life. In
September 2018, she delivered the annual SIM Peter Baehr Lecture for Utrecht University
and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights.
II. Observations on communications
A.
Introduction
10.
The present report contains observations by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions on communications sent between 1 March 2018 and 28
February 2019 and responses received from States and other actors between 1 May 2018 and
30 April 2019. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur sent 131
communications to 64 States and 8 other actors. Out of this total, 123 communications were
sent jointly with other mandates, while 8 communications were sent by this mandate alone.
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