CHAPTER 5 - REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND COOPERATION COMMITTEE on conducting its on-going National Inquiry into the Land Rights of IPs in Malaysia. In addition, given its experience in a previous ICC accreditation exercise, the Commission has been invited to share the lessons learnt from the process, at an event which will take place on the sidelines of the next ICC General Meeting in March 2012. The Bureau Members were pleased to note that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), through its National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms Section, has renewed support for work toward the establishment and strengthening of Given its experience NHRIs. The OHCHR, in an effort to promote greater visibility and in a previous ICC accessibility of the work of the ICC and its member-institutions, has expressed readiness to assist in reviewing the ICC website, and to accreditation assign a staff-member to oversee development and maintenance exercise, the Commission has been of the website. As part of its advocacy effort to widen the participation of NHRIs in UN fora, the ICC had submitted a position paper on the HRC review. It participated intensively in informal consultations, led by the HRC Review Working Group, that were convened from October 2010 through February 2011. The ICC position paper was aimed at securing greater recognition for, and broader participation of, Paris Principles-compliant NHRIs in the Council and its mechanisms. invited to share the lessons learnt from the process, at an event which will take place on the sidelines of the next ICC General Meeting in March 2012. In November, the ICC contributed input to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution on NHRIs, initiated by Germany, for the adoption of the 66th session of the UNGA. The Resolution sought to accord recognition for, and support of, the roles and work of NHRIs and the ICC, as well as the development of partnerships between the ICC and UN agencies and the OHCHR. In support of the ICC’s advocacy, the Commission took steps to lobby the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to co-sponsor the Resolution. The Government did not do so, but joined the consensus when the UNGA adopted it without a vote on 19 December. 2. UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (HRC) The HRC, at its 16th Regular Session in March, adopted a consensus Resolution on the outcome of the review of the work and functioning of the HRC (Resolution HRC/16/L.39). The Resolution reflected a number of significant outcomes resulting from the ICC’s position paper, particularly on the participation and engagement of ‘A’ status NHRIs with the Council’s mechanisms, in relation to the Universal Periodic Review and Special Procedures. 91