A/HRC/43/32 June to August 2019, he had developed a project entitled “mainstreaming human rights in all policies and programmes of the East African Community and East African Court of Justice for a sustainable and prosperous Community”. 16. The representative of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights noted that in July 2018 a working-level meeting had been held among representatives of the Inter-American Court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the European Court of Human Rights to promote dialogue and cooperation and to address common challenges. The Presidents of the three Courts had signed the Declaration of San José with the aim of establishing a permanent biannual forum for institutional dialogue among regional courts and to facilitate exchanges on case law and legal developments. 17. Judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights reported that they had visited the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Committee of Social Rights and the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights to share experiences on monitoring compliance with and fulfilment of judgments issued by the Courts. 18. The representative of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights noted that the United Nations Secretary-General had met with the Court’s members in July 2018. The President of Costa Rica and the Presidents and several members of the European Court of Human Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights had also attended the meeting. 19. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights had also been visited, in 2016, by members of the Human Rights Committee, to discuss common procedural and substantive issues. Moreover, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had provided two advisory opinions, one on child migrants and one on the right to asylum. 20. The representative of the Committee against Torture reported that the Committee had created a space for dialogue with regional courts and that in 2017 and 2018 it had participated in fruitful discussions with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on reparation measures, non-refoulement and monitoring compliance with judgments and decisions. In 2018, the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances had made a submission to the Inter-American Court regarding a contentious case. 21. The representative of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reported that the Commission had participated regularly in the sessions of the Human Rights Council and provided information in the context of the universal periodic review. 22. The representative of the Caribbean Court of Justice reported that the Court had established gender equality protocols and conducted gender-sensitivity trainings to address gender bias in adjudication. 23. The representative of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights highlighted that, since the Commission’s establishment in 2009, the United Nations system had been directly engaged with it on a broad range of human rights issues, including sustainable development, women and children’s rights, business and human rights, disability rights and environmental rights. 24. The representative of the Arab Human Rights Committee reported that the Committee had provided substantive input during the drafting, in May 2019, of a legally binding instrument on the right to development. C. Combating racism 25. The representative of the Arab Human Rights Committee referred to the contribution made by the Committee to the process of drafting a general recommendation on preventing and combating racial profiling initiated in 2019 by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 26. The representative of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights noted that the 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw from 10 to 21 September, focused on combating racism and xenophobia, on promoting tolerance and mutual understanding, and on the situation of Roma and Sinti, and that the 2019 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, held in Warsaw from 16 to 27 4

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