A/HRC/4/123 page 49 H. Special events 1. Violence against children 123. At the 13th meeting, on 19 March 2007, the Council held a special event on violence against children, with the participation of the following panellists: Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights; Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children; Ms. Karin Landgren, Chief, Child Protection, United Nations Children’s Fund; Mr. Robert Butchart, Coordinator for the Prevention of Violence, World Health Organization; Ms. Yoshi Noguchi, Senior Legal Officer, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Organization; and Ms. Roberta Cecchetti, representative of the NGO Advisory Panel for the Secretary-General’s study on violence against children. 124. The special event opened with a video presentation by the non-governmental organization Save the Children, followed by a statement by Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, a pre-recorded video statement by Ms. Moushira Khattab, Vice-Chairperson, Committee on the Rights of the Child, and Secretary-General of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood of Egypt, and a presentation by Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children (A/61/299). 125. During the special event, a statement was made by the representative of Uruguay as co-organizer of the special event. At the same meeting, the following delegations made statements and put questions to the aforementioned panellists, who in an interactive dialogue format made remarks and responded to statements that were made: (a) Representatives of States members of the Council: Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany (on behalf of the European Union, candidate countries - Croatia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey, countries in the process of stabilization and association process and potential candidates - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as Moldova and Ukraine), India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Norway* (also on behalf of Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden), Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference), Tunisia and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; (b) Observers for the following States: Australia, Egypt, New Zealand, Slovenia and Uzbekistan; (c) Observers for specialized agencies and related organizations: International Labour Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund and World Health Organization; (d) Observers for the following non-governmental organizations: Association for World Education, Human Rights Advocates (also on behalf of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), International Islamic Federation of Students Organization, International Save * Observer State of the Council speaking on behalf of a State member and observer States.