A/HRC/10/3 page 5 8. On 4 March 2008 the Special Rapporteur gave a lecture at the Danish Institute for Human Rights in Copenhagen entitled “Human rights after 9/11 - only a backlash or also an opportunity?”. 9. On 19 March and 28 March 2008, respectively, the Special Rapporteur gave public lectures in Melbourne and Sydney on human rights and counter-terrorism. 10. On 23 April 2008, the Special Rapporteur gave a public lecture on human rights and counter-terrorism in St Petersburg. 11. From 19 to 20 May 2008 the Special Rapporteur participated in the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) meeting in New York. The Special Rapporteur is a member of the Working Groups on Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism; on Supporting and Highlighting Victims of Terrorism; and on Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes. 12. On 5 June 2008 the Special Rapporteur participated in a teleconference meeting with the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and made a written submission regarding human rights components which have been adopted in the UNODC draft model on legislative provisions against terrorism. 13. From 9 to 12 June 2008 the Special Rapporteur was in Washington, DC, and gave an informal Congressional briefing organized by the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation. He had a working level meeting with the Legal Affairs Office of the State Department of the United States to discuss legal developments regarding cases before the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay and interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects as a follow-up to his mission report.3 The Special Rapporteur also participated in a panel discussion at the American University on the implementation of the United Nations Global CounterTerrorism Strategy. 14. On 16 June 2008 the Special Rapporteur was in Prague to participate in the Euro-Mediterranean seminar on ensuring respect for human rights while countering terrorism in accordance with international law, co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the European Commission, under the European Union (EU) Presidency of Slovenia. 15. From 23 to 27 June 2008 the Special Rapporteur attended the fifteenth session of the annual meeting of special procedures. He also had high-level meetings with the Permanent Missions of Tunisia and Thailand. 16. On 24 June 2008 the Special Rapporteur chaired an expert meeting in Geneva on “International aviation law: promoting legal safeguards and protecting human rights in the counter-terrorism context”, sponsored by REDRESS and supported by the Office of the 3 A/HRC/6/17/Add.3.