A/HRC/7/29 page 13 the experience of the expert group on Darfur and noted that, in the future, mandate-holders might be increasingly assigned the task of looking into specific situations. A common reflection on this issue was desirable. 59. Participants noted the adoption by the General Assembly on 13 December 2006 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities4 and encouraged all special procedures to give appropriate attention within their mandates to the special challenges persons with disabilities face in the enjoyment of their human rights. B. Cooperation with regional mechanisms 60. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, introduced a paper on cooperation with regional human rights mechanisms. Regional human rights mechanisms relevant to the work of special procedures included the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, affiliated with the Organization of American States and which include several thematic rapporteurs; the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights of the African Union and its system of thematic special mechanisms; the Council of Europe treaty bodies, including the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the European Committee of Social Rights and the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities, and other specialized mechanisms, particularly the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe; the High Commissioner on National Minorities, the Representative on Freedom of the Media, and the Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); and the Working Party on Human Rights and other European Union expert bodies. 61. Many of the above-mentioned mechanisms covered areas that were similar or closely related to special procedures mandates, in a context of limited resources and human rights abuses that demanded common efforts. 62. In recent years, special procedures had increased their cooperation with different regional human rights mechanisms in their respective areas of expertise, with very encouraging results. Participation in expert workshops and exchange of information on relevant activities, exchange of views on substantive issues and working methods, and collaborative action in relation to specific situations were some of the ways in which cooperation with regional mechanisms had taken place, and they had become routine activities for many mandate-holders. Some recent examples were mentioned.5 4 5 General Assembly resolution 61/106. Recent experiences in this regard included the activities of the independent expert on minority issues in cooperation with the Inter-American Commission’s special rapporteur on persons of African descent and against racial discrimination, and the interaction between the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons and his counterpart at the African