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Special Rapporteur on child marriage of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights
and Welfare of the Child.
10.
Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs and one Commissioner from the African
Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights were included in a group of experts appointed
by the Human Rights Council to examine the human rights situation in Burundi.
11.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights had provided information to
the United Nations Special Rapporteur on migration on the situation in the European
Union. It had cooperated with the Council of Europe to compile the jurisprudence of the
European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union and
provided States members of the European Union with targeted information on European
Union and United Nations mechanisms.
12.
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights had collaborated
with a number of Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations, including the Special
Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe,
clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
B.
Treaty bodies
13.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights made submissions to the
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of
the Child on the situation in 15 European Union member States since 2015. The Agency
also chaired the European Union monitoring mechanism under the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and provided online tools to raise awareness of matters
related to the ratification of international human rights instruments.
14.
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights indicated that the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women had been
ratified by all 10 of the Association’s member States.
C.
Human Rights Council and universal periodic review
15.
Workshop participants were informed that, at its thirty-second session, in June 2016,
the Human Rights Council had adopted decision 32/115 on regional arrangements for the
promotion and protection of human rights, mandating the Advisory Committee of the
Human Rights Council to prepare a report on regional arrangements for the promotion and
protection of human rights, in particular on the progress made in the establishment of
regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights,
and their achievements in all regions of the world, and on the role played by OHCHR, as
well as on the role that it could play in the future in advancing cooperation between
international and regional human rights mechanisms, and to identify ways to increase the
role that regional arrangements play in promoting and protecting human rights and to
reinforce universal human rights standards, including as contained in international human
rights instruments, and to submit the report to the Council before its thirty-ninth session
(September 2018).
16.
The Council also encouraged the Advisory Committee, when preparing the abovementioned report, to take into account the views of Member States, relevant international
and regional organizations, OHCHR, national human rights institutions, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) and other relevant stakeholders. In this context, the Advisory
Committee decided, at its seventeenth session, held in August 2016, to establish a drafting
group responsible for the preparation of the report. The drafting group was expected to
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