A/74/149 corporations and intergovernmental organizations. 4 She also issued press releases on cases of urgency or special concern. 5 She continued her collaboration with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in particular on the matter of indigenous peoples ’ right to autonomy or self-government. 7. The Special Rapporteur carried out numerous academic visits, including to Australia, Cambodia, Colombia and Mexico, and provided technical advice at the request of Member States. She continued to follow up on international conferences and meetings of relevance to the rights of indigenous peoples, such as the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the high-level political forum on sustainable development. In addition, she continued to engage with United Nations entities to promote indigenous peoples’ rights within the work of those entities. In January 2019, she was invited by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to participate as a keynote speaker in the launch of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. III. Indigenous women and children 8. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur requires that she pay special attention to the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous children and women and that she take into account a gender perspective in the performance of her mandate. 6 9. The current mandate holder and her predecessors have considered the human rights situation of indigenous women in particular, including by inserting specific sections into their country visit reports and focusing on situations of particular concern. 7 10. The Special Rapporteur devoted a thematic report to the topic of indigenous women and girls, which she submitted to the Human Rights Council in 2015. 8 She has also continued to pay particular attention to the human rights situation of indigenous women in all her country visits, holding separate meetings with them to address their specific concerns and provide recommendations, as reflected in her reports. With regard to children’s rights, she has addressed concerns in the areas of education, health, out-of-home care and juvenile justice. She has visited schools and detention facilities for women and for minors. 11. The Special Rapporteur has attended meetings focused on matters related to the rights of indigenous women, including access to justice, 9 violence against indigenous women and femicide, and the Sustainable Development Goals, 10 and was a panellist at the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women. She took part in discussions on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada and monitored __________________ 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 19-11889 For details of all communications sent and information received under the mandate, see https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/. See www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/NewsSearch.aspx?MID=SR_Indigenous_People . Human Rights Council resolution 33/12, para. 1 (h). See, for example, the report of the previous mandate holder in which he addressed the issue of murdered and missing indigenous women in Canada (A/HRC/27/52/Add.2). A/HRC/30/41. Namely, an expert seminar in 2016 on experiences in the litigation of cases of violence against women and access for women to justice in Central America, organized by the Canadian branch of Lawyers without Borders and Women Transforming the World, a non -governmental organization based in Guatemala, and a symposium in 2016 on the theme “Planning for change: towards a national inquiry and an effective national action plan”, organized by the Feminist Alliance for International Action of Canada and the Native Women’s Association of Canada. Namely, a meeting organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund in Manila in 2017. 5/23