A/HRC/4/91 page 16 treaty body members and NGOs to discuss and further develop harmonized criteria for NHRI participation in the treaty body process in order to enhance and strengthen interaction. Organized by OHCHR, the German Institute for Human Rights and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the round table provided a forum to discuss common ways to support the treaty body process. The findings of the round table will be submitted to the next inter-committee meeting (18-22 June 2007). Special procedures 69. The special procedures mandate holders increasingly consult with NHRI representatives and are an important mechanism for providing support to NHRIs and encouraging their compliance with the Paris Principles. A representative of the ICC of NHRIs participated and briefed the thirteenth annual meeting of special procedures mandate holders (19-23 June 2006) on the role that NHRIs can play in the work of special procedures. The ICC representative called upon the mandate holders to actively involve NHRIs in their work. 70. The mandate holders are regularly provided with information concerning the work of NHRIs in the preparations for their country missions. Increasingly, mandate holders look to NHRIs to assist in ensuring that their recommendations are followed up at the national level. This is an important area of work for NHRIs and should be further encouraged. As a standard practice, the NI Unit compiles special procedures’ recommendations relating to NHRIs and makes them available to relevant NHRIs for follow-up. IV. COOPERATION AMONG THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES AND PROGRAMMES, AND INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 71. OHCHR has strengthened and continues its cooperation with UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, as well as the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, l’Association francophone des Commissions nationales des droits de l’homme, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the British Council, the Council of Europe, the Office for Democractic Institutions and Human Rights, the Ibero-American Federation of Ombudsman, the Special Fund for Ombudsman and National Institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean, the African Union, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, and the Economic Community of West African States in its work relating to NHRIs. 72. OHCHR and the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar organized the Second Conference on National Human Rights Institutions in the Arab Region (Qatar, 4-6 March 2006). The conference, with the title “A Culture of Human Rights”, was also supported by UNDP, UNESCO, the League of Arab States, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar. Some 120 persons participated in the conference, representing existing NHRIs in the Arab region, ministries of culture, education and human rights, parliaments, NGOs and academia.