A/HRC/16/20 4. Discrimination against persons with disabilities, older persons, and persons affected by leprosy and HIV/AIDS 42. The Council has before it my third Thematic Study on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (A/HRC/16/38), which this year focuses on international cooperation. OHCHR analysed the duties of States parties to cooperate internationally and compiled examples of experience in this field. Bringing about the change envisaged in the Convention requires mainstreaming disability rights effectively into broader international cooperation, including both development and humanitarian assistance. 43. OHCHR has stepped up its advocacy for the protection of the human rights of older persons. OHCHR and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized an Expert Group Meeting on the human rights of older persons in Geneva, in May 2010. OHCHR also contributed to the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing to the 2010 General Assembly Comprehensive Overview” (A/65/157) on the social situation, well-being, development and human rights of older persons at the national and regional levels. The report of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty to the HRC on social pensions and older persons (A/HRC/14/31); and the general recommendation No. 27 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on older women and protection of their human rights have also benefited from my Office’s support. 44. In the area of HIV/AIDS and human rights, I have continued to advocate for the elimination of discrimination and stigmatization, the persistence of which has impacted negatively on human rights and undermined national HIV responses. Key activities included a regional workshop in Bangkok on HIV/AIDS and human rights for national institutions in Asia and the Pacific. The conclusions of this and related regional workshops were presented at a special session on HIV and human rights during the March 2010 meeting of the International Coordinating Committee of the National Human Rights Institutions. OHCHR assisted in the production and dissemination of a revised version of the joint OHCHR/WHO/UNAIDS HIV cartoon entitled “Stand up for your human rights.” OHCHR also organized a consultation in Geneva on “the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS”.9 C. Pursuing economic, social and cultural rights and combating inequalities and poverty, including in the context of the economic, food and climate crises 45. OHCHR has pursued the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights and continued strengthening its capacity to contribute to the protection and monitoring of these rights at national and international level, including through its cooperation with WHO, FAO, UNESCO, UN-Habitat and others. OHCHR has developed tools and training materials, and trained its staff on strategies and skills to monitor implementation of economic, social and cultural rights. OHCHR staff undertook over 20 missions to offer assistance and support to Governments, parliaments, United Nations country teams, field presences and civil society on rights such as the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, adequate housing, adequate food, education, social security, cultural rights and on the legal protection and justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights. 9 10 Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 12/27 and the report of which is before the sixteenth session of the Council.