A/HRC/42/19 21. Members of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights met with indigenous representatives affected by business operations during their visit to Kenya in July 2018. Concerns were raised regarding the specific situation of indigenous peoples and the absence of protection measures vis-à-vis their distinctive relationships with land and natural resources. The working group noted that no specific provision existed for consultation with indigenous peoples. 22. In April 2019, the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the rights of peoples to self-determination convened two expert consultations on the gender dimension of the private military and security industry and the extractive industries. Women from indigenous communities and in particular indigenous women human rights defenders were identified as specific at-risk groups during those meetings. C. Land rights 23. In many States, indigenous land rights are still not recognized or inadequately recognized, hindering the enjoyment of indigenous peoples of their right to development and control over their traditional lands, territories and resources. 24. In February 2019, the OHCHR presence in Kenya attended a meeting of the task force set up by the Government and mandated to implement the landmark ruling of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the case involving the Ogiek peoples. OHCHR provided the task force with an overview of the specific recommendations from the various human rights mechanisms relevant to the mandate of the task force, including communications from special procedures mandate holders. In May 2018, the OHCHR presence in Kenya also provided support to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights in drafting a report to the Minister of Environment on the evictions that have taken place in the Embobut forest over the past years, affecting the Sengwer community and other forest dwellers. OHCHR helped to ensure that the report included key recommendations and concluding observations from human rights mechanisms relevant to the protection of the rights of the forest dwellers. 25. In coordination with the United Nations system, the OHCHR office in Guatemala monitored the humanitarian situation of displaced communities, most of whom were indigenous peoples, supporting the Presidential Commission for the Coordination of Human Rights Policy, the Office of the Attorney General, the National Civil Police and the Office of the Ombudsperson in developing protocols on evictions. In addition, it trained members of civil society on strategic litigation related to land, territory and the environment, focusing on the rights of indigenous women. In the context of phase III of the Maya programme, the country office also provided support for the implementation of several judgments of the Constitutional Court related to the collective tenure of rights over land. 26. During the reporting period, the OHCHR office in Colombia concluded a process of reviewing the status of formalizing the ancestral and most recent possession of territories of 15 indigenous Putumayo peoples on the border with Ecuador. There are currently 11 requests for titling and extension of indigenous collective territories that have been pending for more than 15 years. In that context, the country office provided technical assistance to the indigenous peoples of Putumayo concerned on a special protection mechanism entitled “the ethnic protection route”. It also supported a formal request for the protection of indigenous peoples through that mechanism to the Ministry of the Interior, the National Land Agency and the Land Restitution Unit in May 2019. 27. In February 2019, the OHCHR office in Mexico held a meeting with the President of the Indigenous Peoples’ Commission of the Senate to discuss a legislative agenda for indigenous peoples, stressing the importance of recognizing them as collective rights holders and of consulting with them and guaranteeing their participation in any discussion of legislation related to issues that might affect them, particularly on their rights to land and territory. 5