A/HRC/34/23 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 4

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