A/HRC/37/37/Add.1 number of side events and meetings as well as with the policy division of UN Women and in connection with attacks and intentional destruction of cultural heritage with UNESCO (November 2017). In this context, the Special Rapporteur held a side-event on " Facing up to the global avalanche of hate: the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on cultural rights" in Geneva on 3 March. The Special Rapporteur also held a side-event on "Time to take a stand: the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the cultural rights of women", in New York on 26 October. Special Rapporteur on the right to development N/A Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities During the year, the Special Rapporteur participated in numerous conferences and expert meetings, including the fifty-fifth session of the Commission for Social Development in New York in February, the fifth Pacific Regional Conference on Disability in Samoa, also in February, and the annual interactive debate on the rights of persons with disabilities at the Human Rights Council in March. She also co-organized expert consultations on disability assessment and on sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities jointly with other United Nations experts, agencies, international civil society organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities and academia. In June, she participated in the tenth session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and its parallel events. In July, she organized a meeting in Madrid with United Nations human rights experts to discuss the role of human rights mechanisms (treaty bodies and special procedures) to protect the rights of persons with disabilities and identify ways to enhance coherence and coordination in this area. In October, together with the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, she convened international experts from the ageing and disability constituencies to discuss the situation of older persons with disabilities, particularly as it relates to their autonomy and independence. On 4 December, to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Special Rapporteur together with other United Nations agencies, Member States and disability advocacy organizations organized several awareness-raising activities under the campaign to embrace diversity called “A Day for All”. In December, she also took part in the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction held in Vienna. Working Group on Enforced On 5 February, in cooperation with the Government of Belgium and the OHCHR Regional Office for Europe, the Working Group held a discussion on “Enforced or Involuntary disappearance in the 21st century: nature, challenges and measures to combat it”, on the Disappearances margins of its 114th session on enforced disappearance and non-State actors. On 17 February, the Vice-Chair participated in a high-level panel of the General Assembly on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Special Rapporteur on the right to education From 17 to 19 January the Special Rapporteur attended the International Symposium on School Violence and Bullying: From Evidence to Action co‐organised by UNESCO and the Institute of School Violence Prevention at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. This symposium collected education ministries, international experts, international organizations and civil society to promote evidence‐based action among education policy makers to deliver safe and non‐violent learning environments. From 13 to 14 March the Rapporteur attended the Europe and North America Regional Consultation on the Human Rights Guiding Principles on State obligations regarding private schools, hosted by Open Society Foundations Education Support Program, the 50