A/HRC/43/64/Add.1 Mandate Description of events organized by mandate holders covered a wide array of topics including access to land and resources, indigenous justice and self-governance, conservation, economic social and cultural rights and mitigation of the impact of climate change and businesses activities on the rights of indigenous peoples. Over 100 indigenous representatives attended, as did various civil society representatives and staff of the UNEP, FAO, IUCN and various OHCHR country offices in the region. The consultation discussions will contribute to a mandate report on the situation indigenous peoples are facing in the region. The report will be presented to the Human Rights Council at its 45th session in September 2020. Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons From 4 to 8 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur held several expert consultations, civil society briefings and bilateral meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. On 4 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur convened a workshop on ‘the role of National Human Rights Institutions in preventing conditions leading to internal displacement’, together with GANHRI, UNHCR and OHCHR in preparation for her report to the 41 st session of the Human Rights Council. On 6 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur organized an expert meeting on ‘Improving protection of internally displaced children’ in preparation for her report to the 74th session of the General Assembly. The meeting brought together child rights experts and was attended by the SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict, the SRSG on Violence against Children and the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. On 27 June 2019, during the 41st session of the Human Rights Council, and under the framework of the GP20 Plan of Action to advance prevention, protection, and solutions for internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur organized, together with Save the Children, a side event titled 'Protecting the Rights of Internally Displaced Children'. On 24 October 2019, another side event on ‘Protecting Internally Displaced Children’ was jointly organized by the Special Rapporteur, UNICEF, UNHCR, and the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations under the framework of the GP20 Plan of Action during the 74th session of the General Assembly. The Special Rapporteur carried out a working visit to Ethiopia in September 2019 in which she engaged with a wide range of interlocutors and joined a mission to areas of return in Gedeo zone led by the USG for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of OCHA, and the ASG for Peacebuilding Support. On 6 December 2019, the Special Rapporteur co-organized with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Afghanistan and Ethiopia a roundtable discussion with States reflecting on her first term on the mandate and her plans for the next three years. The Special Rapporteur co-organized the 16th, 17th and 18th Sanremo Courses on the Law of Internal Displacement, held in June and November 2019 at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo bringing together Government officials from several States who deal with internal displacement issues. In November, the course was, for the first time, offered also in French. Independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order On 22 and 29 May 2019, in preparation of his forthcoming reports to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly, the Independent Expert held consultations in Geneva and Washington D.C. respectively with representatives of civil society on the issue of public participation and decision-making in global governance spaces and its impact on a democratic and equitable international order. The IE was interested in looking at how such spaces can become more accessible, inclusive and responsive to the voices of people and groups previously excluded from international decision-making bodies, but whose lives and livelihoods are affected by the decisions taken. Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to selfdetermination From 1 to 5 April 2019, the Working Group on the use of mercenaries held its 36 th session in Geneva. The Working Group held two expert meetings during its session with the aim to seek information and recommendations that will feed into the two thematic reports to be presented to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly in 2019. The consultations focused on the gender dimensions of the private military and security industry and on the human rights impact of private military and security companies engaged in the extractive industry respectively. The meetings brought together academics, civil society representatives, private industry, multi-stakeholder 75