A/HRC/43/64/Add.1 Mandate Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material Description of events organized by mandate holders On 7 March 2019, the Special Rapporteur held a panel discussion on the sale and sexual exploitation of children in the context of sports, following the presentation of her report on this topic to the Human Rights Council. The discussion was attended by States, UN agencies, sports federations and civil society. On 24 June 2019, the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children met with the representatives of Governments, UN agencies and NGOs to consult on the preliminary findings of her report to the General Assembly on Safeguards for the protection of the rights of children born from surrogacy arrangements. The small-scale consultation was organized as a follow-up to her call for inputs and was aimed at engaging with and seeking further input from interested stakeholders. In preparation of her report, an additional consultation was also organized on the margins of the International Surrogacy Forum held by the Cambridge Family Law Centre, the International Academy of Family Lawyers and the American Bar Association at the University of Cambridge on 27 and 28 June 2019. On 23 September 2019, the Special Rapporteur held a public consultation with States and other stakeholders as part of a process to inform the preparation of her final report to the Human Rights Council. On 24 and 25 September, the Special Rapporteur, in partnership with the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, held a two-day expert meeting hosted by UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti in Florence. Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity On 13 February 2019, the Independent Expert organized a public consultation that saw the participation of more than 80 persons, including States, civil society representatives, academics and UN agencies. The purpose of the consultation was to seek views and inputs around the issue of data collection and management related to sexual orientation and gender identity. On 14 February 2019, the Independent Expert and UNDP co-organized a meeting with 30 experts to discuss key human rights safeguards that must be taken into consideration when collecting and managing data, aiming at identifying a human rights-based approach to data collection and use in the context of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In parallel, the Independent Expert sent a questionnaire and will be hosting a series of on-line consultations to collect additional inputs for his report. From 1 to 2 October 2019, the Independent Expert and Flávia Piovesan, Rapporteur on the Rights of LGBTI Persons of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, held their first Joint Consultation to discuss the inclusion in the economic, social and cultural sphere of the LGBTI persons and the eradication of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the Caribbean. The consultation was organized as part of a strategic alliance between both human rights mandates, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations Development Programme. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and its consequences On 26 November 2019, the Special Rapporteur, jointly with the BBC, organized a public film screening of a documentary called “Maids for Sale” in which she participated during the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. Some 200 people attended the screening and the subsequent panel discussion, showing the strong interest in online slavery being facilitated by major tech companies such as Facebook/Instagram, Apple, Google and others. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism On February 1 2019, the Special Rapporteur held a joint meeting with Nicholas Millar Legal Advisor ICNL and Vanja Skoric, Executive Director ECNL, on her impending civil society focused report at HRC40. From 27 to 28 February 2019, the Special Rapporteur conducted a working level visit to various EU Institutions in Brussels to conduct various meeting related to human rights, terrorism and security issues in the EU and gender issues and UNSCR 1325. She met with civil society organizations, lawyers, victims, organizations, EEAS, SECPOL 2 (EEAS), the Terrorism and Radicalization Unit of the European Commission, European Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator and various European Union Ambassadors. 79

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