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June to August 2019, he had developed a project entitled “mainstreaming human rights in
all policies and programmes of the East African Community and East African Court of
Justice for a sustainable and prosperous Community”.
16.
The representative of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights noted that in July
2018 a working-level meeting had been held among representatives of the Inter-American
Court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the European Court of Human
Rights to promote dialogue and cooperation and to address common challenges. The
Presidents of the three Courts had signed the Declaration of San José with the aim of
establishing a permanent biannual forum for institutional dialogue among regional courts
and to facilitate exchanges on case law and legal developments.
17.
Judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights reported that they had visited
the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Committee of Social Rights and
the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights to
share experiences on monitoring compliance with and fulfilment of judgments issued by the
Courts.
18.
The representative of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights noted that the
United Nations Secretary-General had met with the Court’s members in July 2018. The
President of Costa Rica and the Presidents and several members of the European Court of
Human Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights had also attended the
meeting.
19.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights had also been visited, in 2016, by
members of the Human Rights Committee, to discuss common procedural and substantive
issues. Moreover, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had provided two
advisory opinions, one on child migrants and one on the right to asylum.
20.
The representative of the Committee against Torture reported that the Committee
had created a space for dialogue with regional courts and that in 2017 and 2018 it had
participated in fruitful discussions with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on
reparation measures, non-refoulement and monitoring compliance with judgments and
decisions. In 2018, the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances had made a
submission to the Inter-American Court regarding a contentious case.
21.
The representative of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reported
that the Commission had participated regularly in the sessions of the Human Rights
Council and provided information in the context of the universal periodic review.
22.
The representative of the Caribbean Court of Justice reported that the Court had
established gender equality protocols and conducted gender-sensitivity trainings to address
gender bias in adjudication.
23.
The representative of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
highlighted that, since the Commission’s establishment in 2009, the United Nations system
had been directly engaged with it on a broad range of human rights issues, including
sustainable development, women and children’s rights, business and human rights,
disability rights and environmental rights.
24.
The representative of the Arab Human Rights Committee reported that the
Committee had provided substantive input during the drafting, in May 2019, of a legally
binding instrument on the right to development.
C.
Combating racism
25.
The representative of the Arab Human Rights Committee referred to the contribution
made by the Committee to the process of drafting a general recommendation on preventing
and combating racial profiling initiated in 2019 by the Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination.
26.
The representative of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human
Rights noted that the 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw
from 10 to 21 September, focused on combating racism and xenophobia, on promoting
tolerance and mutual understanding, and on the situation of Roma and Sinti, and that the
2019 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw from 16 to 27
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