A/HRC/38/44/Add.3 • Excessive use of force by State agents, as part of anti-drugs operations, during arrest and in the context of protests.2 D. Meetings and other activities 7. The Special Rapporteur also chaired, organized and/or participated in several meetings, conferences and other events, including: • Interactive dialogue with the Government of Canada (6 to 7 April 2017, Ottowa), • World Press Freedom Day event organized by UNESCO (2 to 4 May 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia), • Policy Forum: Drug Issues, Different Perspectives (5 to 8 May 2017, Manila, Philippines), • Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity co-organized by OHCHR and UNESCO (29 June 2017, Geneva), • Expert Seminar on integrating a Gender Perspective into the work of Special Procedures organized by the Geneva Academy (1 July 2017, Geneva), • Expert Workshop on Witchcraft and Human Rights organized by the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism (21 to 22 September 2017, Geneva), • UNODC and OHCHR launch of a resource book on the use of force and firearms in law enforcement (22 September 2017, Geneva), • 2017 Dublin Platform on Human Rights Defenders (17 October 2017, Dublin, Ireland), • Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, Panel Event on Extrajudicial Killing and State Policy (9 October 2017, Sidney, Australia), • Roundtable discussion on the thematic report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of the unlawful death of migrants and refugees (A/72/335), held in the margins of the seventy-second General Assembly and organized by the mandate (27 October 2017, New York), • Global Compact on Migration preparatory meeting (4 to 6 December 2017, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico), • Briefing for United Nations Security Council Member States on Iraq organized by the Kingdom of the Netherlands (20 February 2018, New York), • Expert meeting on the draft treaty on crimes against humanity (12 March 2018, New York), • Expert Meeting on large-scale DNA data crossing of missing migrants organized by EEAF (15 to 17 January 2018, Mexico City, Mexico), • Expert panel on the accountability for killings of women and LGBTI persons during conflict, held in the margins of the Commission on the Status of Women, and organized by the mandate, co-sponsored by the Government of Finland, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and City University of New York Law School (19 March 2018, New York), 2 4 The full list of press statements issued can be found at: http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/NewsSearch.aspx?MID=SR_Summ_Executions.

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