A/76/44 K. Participation of Committee members in other meetings 19. During the period under consideration, Committee members participated in several events, as follows: (a) Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon delivered a virtual presentation at an event marking the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, hosted by the Executive Commission for Victim Support of Mexico, on 26 June 2020; (b) Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated in an online panel discussion on challenges in the visibilization, registration and denouncing of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, hosted by the national preventive mechanism of Argentina, held on 15 October 2020; (c) Mr. Heller attended an online workshop on international humanitarian law and United Nations treaty bodies organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, held on 17, 19 and 23 November 2020; (d) Mr. Modvig attended an online technical workshop for Commonwealth Caribbean countries on sharing experiences of ratification of, legislative reform relating to, and reporting under the Convention against Torture organized by the Convention against Torture Initiative, held from 1 to 3 December 2020; (e) Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated as speaker in a webinar for litigators on the individual communications procedures of the treaty bodies, organized by the NGO Network on Treaty Bodies (TB-Net), the Open Society Justice Initiative, the International Service for Human Rights and Amnesty International, held on 4 December 2020; (f) Ms. Belmir made a presentation on the Convention against Torture and its implications during a human rights capacity-building programme for judges, held by the authorities of Morocco in mid-December 2020; (g) Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated, online, in a dialogue on immigration detention hosted by the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights in Trinidad and Tobago, held on 10 February 2021; (h) Mr. Modvig organized, jointly with Dignity – Institute against Torture, and participated in, a webinar on monitoring health in places of detention, held on 13 January 2021; (i) Mr. Heller attended an online workshop on strengthening capacities to report under the simplified reporting procedure organized by OHCHR for the Government of Belize, held on 3 and 4 February 2021; (j) Mr. Rodriguez-Pinzon participated in a virtual panel entitled “Criminalizing torture in Pakistan: the need for an effective legal framework”, hosted by the World Organization against Torture and Justice Project Pakistan, held on 15 March 2021; (k) Ms. Racu attended a webinar, entitled “Protecting women from torture: the UN Convention against Torture through a gendered lens”, organized by the World Organization against Torture as part of its global week against torture held from 22 to 25 March 2021; (l) Liu Huawen attended, as a panellist, an Asia-Pacific peer-to-peer webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, held on 31 March 2021. It was the first regional meeting in the context of a series of webinars jointly organized by the informal working group on COVID-19, the Human Rights Treaties Branch (capacity-building programme) and the respective OHCHR regional offices. 4

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