A/HRC/22/17 guidance and training under the auspices of the Standing Committee and the Working Group. 68. Nationally, OHCHR field presences continued to integrate human rights into humanitarian preparedness and response efforts by participating in and supporting humanitarian country teams, including by leading protection clusters in Haiti, the occupied Palestinian territories, the Pacific, Timor-Leste and Mauritania. OHCHR participated in initiatives concerning the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel to integrate human rights into humanitarian efforts. In Haiti, OHCHR was also instrumental in integrating human rights into the transition phase from emergency to development. F. Human rights mechanisms and international law 1. Treaty bodies 69. In June 2012, I published my report entitled “Strengthening the Human Rights Treaty Body System”, the culmination of three years of consultations with Member States, treaty body members, civil society organizations, United Nations agencies and national human rights institutions. My report seeks a vision for an efficient, effective and timely treaty body system, building on the strengths of the system while dealing with its challenges, in particular insufficient resourcing. A key proposal is to develop a comprehensive reporting calendar that would operate on the basis of universal compliance with States parties’ reporting obligations. Other recommendations include a simplified reporting process, strengthened procedures for communications, inquiries and visits, strengthened independence and expertise of treaty body members, strengthened capacity for implementation and enhanced visibility and accessibility of the treaty bodies. 70. Since then, seven treaty bodies have taken action, welcoming my report and assessing its implications. At the annual meeting of the chairpersons of the treaty bodies in Addis Ababa in June, the 10 chairpersons took concrete action by endorsing the Guidelines on independence and impartiality of the human rights treaty bodies. 71. In February 2012, the General Assembly, in its resolution 66/254, established an open-ended intergovernmental process on treaty body strengthening, which it extended to its sixty-seventh session. I trust that this process will embrace a multi-stakeholder approach and respect the powers of the treaty bodies to decide on their working methods. In this context, a civil society forum, moderated by the co-facilitators of the intergovernmental process, was held on 4 September 2012 in New York and, through videoconference, also in Geneva. 72. On 6 March 2012, OHCHR officially launched the upgraded Universal Human Rights Index database, which has been redesigned to compile recommendations from the universal periodic review in addition to treaty bodies and the special procedures. OHCHR updated its fact sheet on the United Nations human rights treaty system, and also published the first volume of Selected Decisions of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, covering jurisprudence from August 1988 to August 2011. 2. Human Rights Council 73. In 2012, the Human Rights Council continued to demonstrate its resolve to address human rights situations. In June, it held the fourth special session on the human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic since the crisis began. In September, it extended the mandate of the commission of inquiry for the fourth time, and strengthened it with two additional commissioners. In March, it established a fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of Israeli settlements on the human rights of the Palestinian people. I regret to report that the countries concerned have not granted these missions access. Furthermore, I 15