Annual Report 2008-2009 iv) Training Programmes Organized by the Commission 110 v) Summer Training Programme 110 vi) Training Programme for Indian Foreign Service Probationers 110 vii) In-house Training Programme 111 viii) Interaction with Visiting Students/Trainees from Various Colleges/Universities of India 111 ix) Interaction with Foreign Diplomats 111 x) Hindi Fortnight at the NHRC 111 xi) Foundation Day Function 111 xii) Human Rights Day 111 xiii) Inter-College Debate Competition for College Students 112 xiv) School Children’s Race 112 xv) Inter-Paramilitary Forces Debate Competition 112 xvi) Painting Competition 112 CHAPTER - 9 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 113 - Universal Periodic Review 113 - NHRC, India Participation in International Meetings 113 - Visits, Seminars and Workshops Abroad 114 - Commonwealth Forum Meeting 114 - Conference of Chairpersons, Secretaries of State Human Rights Commissions, Public Functionaries and NGOs 115 Exchanges and Other Interactions 115 - CHAPTER - 10 NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 117 CHAPTER - 11 STATE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS 119 CHAPTER - 12 REVIEW OF LAWS, IMPLEMENTATION OF TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS 121 - Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 and the 1967 Protocol 121 - Convention against Torture, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 121 - The 1977 Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 122 CHAPTER – 13 RESEARCH STUDIES AND PROJECTS 123 A. Completed Research Study 123 - Action Research on Land, Labour and Human Rights Violations in Bundelkhand and Sonbhadra Region of Uttar Pradesh 123 Freedom Mortgaged and Future Abandoned: Bonded Child Labour in Karnataka’s Silk Industry 123 B. On-going Research Study 123 - Research and Review to Strengthen Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act’s Implementation Across Key States 123 - CHAPTER – 14 ADMINISTRATION AND LOGISTIC SUPPORT 125 A. Staff 125 B Special Rapporteurs 125 7