A/HRC/43/64/Add.1 Mandate Description of events organized by mandate holders field of economic reforms were also discussed. Close to 40 participants joined the discussion. On 3 December 2019, the Independent Expert held an expert consultation in Geneva, in collaboration with the University of Geneva and Frederic Ebert Stiftung, with the view of informing his upcoming thematic report on private debt and human rights to be presented at HRC43. Close to 20 participants from various backgrounds and regions participated in the discussion. This meeting was the last of a series of consultations and discussions, which took place during fall 2019 in Princeton (18 October), Nairobi (31 October-1 November, invitation from Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa) and Buenos Aires (19 November, co-organized by FES Argentina). Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression On 1 May 2019, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression convened a regional consultation on digital and offline threats to freedom of expression in East Africa, in the margins of the World Press Freedom Day, held in Addis Ababa. Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association The Special Rapporteur held a number of consultations to obtain inputs for his report to the 41st session of the Human Rights Council on the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association in the Digital Age: From 24-25 January 2019 the Special Rapporteur held a regional consultation in Mexico City, entitled: “Consultative Meeting on Digital Space and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association - Dialogue between experts from Latin America and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Clément Nyaletsossi Voulé.” This meeting was convened by ICNL and brought together a group of over thirty experts on digital space and human rights defenders. Between 28 January and 1 February 2019 the Special Rapporteur held bilateral meetings with a number of tech companies in Silicon Valley in preparation of the UNGA report, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Google/YouTube, Twitter, Cloudflare, Reddit, Mozilla and GitHub. He also met with the Wikimedia Foundation, and held a joint meeting with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch. From 21-22 February 2019 the Special Rapporteur held a regional consultation in Nairobi, entitled “Digital Space and the Protection of Freedoms of Association and Peaceful Assembly in Africa – Consultative meeting with UN Special Rapporteur Clément Voulé.” This meeting brought together representatives of thirty-five civil society organisations drawn from eighteen countries on the African continent, to identify challenges to protecting the right to freedom of association and assembly in the digital age and develop recommendations and strategies to counter such threats. The Special Rapporteur also engaged in a number of consultations for his report to the 74th session of the General Assembly on the links between shrinking civic space and sustainable development: On 5 February 2019 the Special Rapporteur gave a briefing on the links between the rights to freedom of assembly and of association and development at the World Bank, Washington, DC, where he also met with experts from the World Bank’s Human Rights and Development Trust Fund, the Global Partnership for Social Accountability, and some of the World Bank’s lead researchers. On 7 March 2019 the Special Rapporteur held an expert consultation in Copenhagen, Denmark, entitled “The impact of restrictions to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on sustainable development” This meeting was organized with the collaboration and support of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and brought together representatives of thirteen CSOs, and UN OHCHR. On 30-31 May 2019 the Special Rapporteur held a consultation in Johannesburg, entitled “The Impact of Restrictions on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association in Sustainable Development.” Over 50 activists representing 73