A/HRC/10/54 page 13 Council of Europe 49. On 16 and 17 September 2008, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and the Irish Human Rights Commission held the fifth round table of European National Human Rights Institutions and the Commissioner, in Dublin. The theme of the round table was “Domestic protection of human rights: strengthening independent national structures”. OHCHR, the Council of Europe and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights committed to discuss greater cooperation in the context of creating or strengthening national human rights institutions in Europe. OHCHR stressed the need for the Council of Europe and the Agency to support the international standards and the accreditation process through the International Coordinating Committee. 5. Arab region Arab-European Dialogue on Migration and Human Rights 50. From 6 to 8 May 2008, OHCHR participated in the third Arab-European Human Rights Dialogue on Migration and Human Rights, organized by the national human rights institutions of Denmark, Jordan and Morocco, in Rabat. The meeting hosted discussions about challenges and gaps between the human rights standards aiming at protecting the rights of migrants, and focused on implementation gaps and challenges related to regular and irregular migration, labour markets and migrant workers’ rights. Regional seminar on human rights and counter-terrorism 51. The OHCHR regional seminar on human rights and counter-terrorism, organized in cooperation with UNDP, was held in Amman from 27 to 29 October 2008. The seminar initiated dialogue on human rights obligations and commitments of States in matters related to counter-terrorism among national human rights institutions and key regional partners. Representatives of Governments and institutions from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan, Tunisia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and the Occupied Palestinian Territory participated. Comparative universal periodic review experiences 52. On 19 and 20 November 2008, OHCHR participated in an international conference on comparative universal periodic review experiences, organized by the Government of Bahrain in cooperation with UNDP. Over 100 delegates from the Arab region, including Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, representatives of the League of Arab States as well as from countries which had already been reviewed (Tunisia, Morocco, the United Kingdom and Argentina) participated in the conference. Third International Conference of Cairo 53. OHCHR participated in the third International Conference in Cairo on the theme “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 60 years after: between rhetoric and reality”, on 1 and 2 December 2008. The conference was organized by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights and UNESCO.

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