A/HRC/27/39 C. 1. Contributions by the Office of the High Commissioner to international initiatives supporting national human rights institutions Annual general meetings of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 78. During the reporting period, OHCHR provided secretariat and technical support for two annual general meetings of the International Coordinating Committee, held in Geneva from 6 to 8 May 2013 and from 12 to 14 March 2014. 2. Bureau meetings 79. OHCHR provided secretariat and technical support for three statutory Bureau meetings of the International Coordinating Committee, which were held in Geneva on 6 May 2013 and 12 March 2014 and in Accra on 25 and26 November 2013. The Bureau members discussed their strategic priorities and other organizational issues. They also endorsed the reports of the Subcommittee on Accreditation of November 2012, May 2013 and November 2013. 3. Subcommittee on Accreditation 80. Article 6 of the Statute of the International Coordinating Committee provides that meetings of the Subcommittee on Accreditation shall be held under the auspices of and in cooperation with OHCHR. Accordingly, OHCHR provided substantive support for three sessions of the Subcommittee, held in Geneva in May and November 2013 and in March 2014. The presence of OHCHR at all the meetings of the Subcommittee is instrumental to attesting the compliance of the accreditation process with the established rules of procedure and contributes to its transparency, fairness and rigorousness. 4. National human rights institutions in Portuguese-speaking countries 81. In May 2013, OHCHR participated in a meeting in Lisbon as follow-up to a workshop held in October 2012 in Cape Verde on the establishment and strengthening of NHRIs in the Portuguese-speaking countries. During the meeting, a network of national human rights institutions of Portuguese-speaking countries was formally established under the chairship of the national human rights institution of Mozambique. 5. Fellowship programme for staff of national human rights institutions 82. OHCHR continued the fellowship programme for the staff of A-status national human rights institutions. Initiated in 2008, the programme is designed to provide fellows with information on and working experience with the international human rights system, and to familiarize them with the work of OHCHR with national human rights institutions. During the period under review, fellows from the human rights institutions of Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, the State of Palestine, the Philippines and South Africa participated in the programme. III. Cooperation between United Nations human rights mechanisms and national human rights institutions A. Human Rights Council 83. During the reporting period, national human rights institutions were active before and during the sessions of the Human Rights Council, delivering statements, submitting 12