A/HRC/29/35 experts from the region and beyond to provide new regional perspectives for policy options which Asian and Pacific countries could adopt to meet their development objectives. The Independent Expert participated in discussions focused on the strategies needed to improve the economic, social and environmental aspects of economic growth that are simultaneously people-centred and inclusive, dynamic and resilient, and within the capacity of the earth and its resources; overcoming the fundamental barriers to the integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions that support people-centred sustainable development; and the key steps required to turn trade-offs between the economic, social and environmental dimensions into synergies. 6. The Independent Expert attended the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Climate Change Summit, which were held simultaneously during the opening week of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, in September 2014, with a view to gathering more recent data relevant to the proposed draft declaration on the right to international solidarity. She was invited to participate in the Leaders’ Forum on Women Leading the Way: Raising Ambition for Climate Action, an event hosted by UN-Women and the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. Current and former women heads of State, representatives of governments, leaders of grassroots, youth and indigenous organizations, civil society, the private sector, the scientific community and the United Nations system were gathered together to demonstrate women’s leadership on climate action and highlight gender-responsive action taken at both the local and national levels. The forum’s outcomes were intended to feed into the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Summit, which was aimed at mobilizing action by governments, business, the financial sector and civil society to enable the world to shift towards a low-carbon economy. 7. In November 2014, the Independent Expert, at the invitation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, participated as a speaker and resource person during the Commission’s workshop on the theme “Regional mechanisms: “best practices on implementation of human rights”, which was held with a view to creating a platform for exchanging and sharing experiences, best practices and lessons learned among representatives of regional human rights mechanisms around the globe and other relevant stakeholders, including representatives of government agencies, national human rights institutions, United Nations agencies and civil society organizations. The workshop was convened with a view also to enhancing and regularizing cooperation between the Commission, other regional mechanisms and other stakeholders for the better promotion and protection of human rights in the ASEAN subregion, which was to be integrated into a single economic community by the end of 2015. During the discussions, the Independent Expert spoke on experiences and challenges in developing and implementing regional norms, standards or instruments and on the way forward for cooperation between the regional mechanisms and the United Nations agencies and treaty bodies. B. Context of the present report 8. At recent events in various parts of the world, opposing interest groups have been using the term “solidarity” loosely, rendering the term and, by association, the concept of “international solidarity” vaguer or more ambiguous than they already are. This ambiguity gives rise to the need to limit the possible interpretations of the term that may be applied on the various occasions when the term may be used In the present report, the Independent Expert discusses how the term “international solidarity” as a principle underpinning international law should be understood in the context of the proposed draft declaration on 4