A/HRC/42/45 11. On 28 September, he participated in a transitional justice forum organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in El Salvador. 12. On 18 October, he participated in the General Assembly at its seventy-third session, presenting his thematic report on his four main lines of engagement with that body. 13. On 25 October, he participated in a meeting with the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, to discuss existing and future collaboration, and in a meeting entitled “Responses to situations of high criminal violence: the case of El Salvador”, organized by the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum in New York. 14. From 19 to 22 November, he participated in the induction session for new special procedure mandate holders, convened by OHCHR in Geneva. 15. From 21 November to 15 January, he held an online consultation to inform the present report. 16. On 3 and 4 December, he participated in a seminar entitled “European Union support to transitional justice: a review three years after the adoption of the policy framework”, which was convened by the European External Action Service in Brussels, and held bilateral meetings with officials of the Service. 17. On 5 December, he participated in the thirty-third International Conference of Bar Associations, in Lausanne, Switzerland. 18. On 6 and 7 December 2018, he convened an expert meeting to inform the present report. 19. On 20 and 21 February 2019, he participated in the “Gender-sensitive transitional justice process in Syria” conference, organized by the Syrian Feminist Lobby and the EuroMed Feminist Initiative, in Paris. 20. On 19 March, he participated in a symposium entitled “International human rights standards: truth and justice in South Korea”, held in Jeju, Republic of Korea. 21. From 17 April to 31 May, he held an online consultation on the adoption of apologies for gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law, to inform his report for the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. 22. From 24 April to 3 May, he undertook an official country visit to El Salvador. 23. On 4 June, he participated in a conference entitled “Gender dimensions in transitional justice” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 24. From 17 to 21 June, he attended the annual meeting of special procedure mandate holders, in Geneva. III. General considerations 25. Under international human rights law, there is a solid legal framework establishing the right of victims to reparation for gross human rights violations, as noted by the previous Special Rapporteur, Pablo de Greiff, in his report on the subject.3 26. Despite the existence of a strong normative framework and international and domestic jurisprudence, and the recognition by States that victims have a right to reparation, victims do not see this right realized. Even in countries where domestic reparation programmes have been set up, many challenges remain to achieve adequate, prompt and full reparation for victims of gross human rights violations and serious violations of humanitarian law. 3 4 See A/69/518.