A/68/317 societies within which indigenous peoples live come to share in awareness and conviction about those goals. IV. Conclusions and recommendations A. Activities pursuant to the mandate 81. The Special Rapporteur is grateful for the opportunity to report to the General Assembly on his activities since the beginning of his mandate in 2008. These activities fall within four interrelated areas: promoting good practices; country reports; cases of alleged human rights violations and thematic studies. 82. Within each of the work areas, the Special Rapporteur has built upon established work methods generally employed by Human Rights Council special procedure mandate holders, while also developing new ones, especially in relation to the promotion of good practices and addressing cases of alleged human rights violations through the communications procedure. The Special Rapporteur considers that the innovation in work methods has contributed to greater responsiveness to the human rights concerns of indigenous peoples and to assisting States and other actors to address those concerns, in furtherance of his mandate by the Human Rights Council. 83. The Secretariat, States and other relevant actors should encourage and support innovation and flexibility in the work methods employed by the Special Rapporteur and his successor mandate holders, when those work methods and their objectives are clearly within the terms his mandate by the Human Rights Council and consistent with the Council’s Code of Conduct for special procedures mandate holders. 84. The Special Rapporteur is grateful to those States that have cooperated with his mandate, but notes that several States have declined to give their consent to country visits or to respond to his communications regarding alleged human rights violations. The Special Rapporteur urges that the lack of cooperation by some States with the Special Rapporteur and other special procedures mandate holders be given greater and more systematic attention within various human review processes within the United Nations system, including the Human Rights Council’s universal periodic review, and that specific methods be developed to encourage cooperation, including for country visits. 85. Efforts should be made to more broadly and effectively disseminate the reports of the Special Rapporteur, especially country reports and reports on cases of alleged human rights violations, and to develop strategies and methods to use the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur to effect positive change. States should, as a matter of course, disseminate to all relevant officials, interested parties and the public, those reports that concern them. 86. The Special Rapporteur has promoted and enjoyed a notable level of cooperation with the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, other United Nations institutions, and regional human rights mechanisms. Greater efforts should be 13-42710 21/22