A/HRC/17/36 Villages International, SOS Kinderdorf International, Terre des Hommes International Federation, the World Organization against Torture and World Vision International. 12. Pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Human Rights Council resolution 13/3, the Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Yanghee Lee, and the ViceChairperson, Jean Zermatten, also attended the session of the Working Group as resource persons. The Vice-President of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Chairman of the Council of the Child Rights Information Network, Peter Newell, also participated in the session in his capacity as expert. The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children, the Ombudsman for Children in Poland, the International Coordinating Committee for National Human Rights Institutions and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights also took part in the session, as well as a member of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, Benyam Dawit Mezmur. C. Documentation 13. D. The Working Group had before it the following documents: A/HRC/WG.7/2/1 Provisional agenda A/HRC/WG.7/2/2 Proposal for a draft optional protocol prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communications procedure A/HRC/WG.7/2/3 Comments by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the proposal for a draft optional protocol prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur A/HRC/WG.7/2/4 Revised proposal for a draft optional protocol prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur. A/HRC/WG.7/2/CRP.2 Revised proposal for a draft optional protocol Organization of the debate 14. At its first meeting, on 6 December 2010, the Working Group adopted its agenda for the session (A/HRC/WG.7/2/1). It also adopted its programme of work for the first part of the session. On 10 February 2011, the Working Group adopted its programme of work for the second part of the session. 15. The Working Group agreed to devote the first part of the session (6 to 10 December 2010) to a debate on the proposal for a draft optional protocol prepared by the Chairperson (A/HRC/WG.7/2/2). On the basis of the discussions, a revised text of the proposal was prepared by the Chairperson. The second part of the session (10 to 16 February 2011) was devoted to discussions on the revised proposal (A/HRC/WG.7/2/4). III. Debate on the proposal for a draft optional protocol prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur 16. In his opening statement at the beginning of the second session, the ChairpersonRapporteur underlined that, in preparing his proposal, he had sought consistency and coherence with existing communications procedures while taking into account the 5