A/HRC/10/30 page 15 engaged in informal bilateral advocacy with key actors in the Government of the Sudan, urging the Government to use the heavy international focus on the International Criminal Court process as an opportunity to demonstrate an improvement in its human rights record, and specifically to address more effectively the Darfur crisis. 36. In February 2009, the Special Adviser urged that any decision by the International Criminal Court regarding the request for indictment of President Omar al-Bashir should under no circumstances lead to reprisals that would expose civilians in Darfur or in any other part of the country to even greater levels of violence, including the risk of genocide. 4. Other situations 37. The Special Adviser and his staff continued to monitor other country situations and are in the process of discussing them with relevant United Nations departments and the responsible State authorities. The Special Adviser will consider appropriate action to take, including issuing public statements on these situations, at the appropriate time. B. Development of an information collection system and collaboration within the United Nations 38. In July 2008, the office of the Special Adviser, with financial support from Canada, began preparing an inventory of the monitoring and information collection systems within the United Nations that are relevant to the prevention of genocide. Several hundred United Nations staff members are engaged in daily monitoring of country situations from the perspectives of, inter alia, political, human rights, children’s rights, humanitarian, development, rule of law, peace and security, food security and displacement concerns. Data are collected, analysed and are frequently the subject of internal United Nations reports or briefing papers that are used for briefing senior staff and, when appropriate, for early warning of Member States pursuant to relevant General Assembly, Security Council and Human Rights Council mandates. Collectively, the information processed by these desk officers covers almost all of the information required by the office of the Special Adviser for monitoring within its framework of analysis. In addition, some 30 special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council monitor issues such as racial discrimination, extrajudicial killings, access to education and health care and the situation of ethnic minorities - all key issues in the prevention of genocide - and raise individual cases and collective concerns with Governments. Several of these mandates focus on violations that relate directly to genocide; for instance, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions specifically warned of the possibility of genocide in Rwanda several months before it occurred. 39. Some United Nations departments and specialized agencies maintain databases of information falling within their emergency response mandates, including, for example, UNICEF and WFP. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a capacity to convert certain types of data into maps that show regions where populations may be vulnerable. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations maintains a 24-hour situation centre. All operational United Nations departments and specialized agencies participate in coordinating mechanisms, such as the interdepartmental Framework Team on Early Warning and Prevention, designed to pool the information and expertise from within the United Nations, to develop a common understanding of emerging concerns, and to ensure a timely and coordinated response.