A/65/273 25. From 10 to 17 April, the Special Rapporteur attended the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, and gave a speech at the opening plenary session on “Children, youth and crime”. The Special Rapporteur was a speaker at the Open Society Justice Initiative meeting on “Prioritizing pretrial justice: transformative systems that contribute to socio-economic development and the rule of law” on the topic “Pretrial detention and torture”. On 13 April, he was a speaker on the “History and significance of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture” at the Association for Prevention of Torture/Japan Federation of Bar Associations/Penal Reform International meeting on “Visiting mechanisms and transparency in prison: the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and worldwide developments”. On 14 April, the Special Rapporteur was a speaker at the meeting on “The need for a United Nations convention on the rights of detainees” organized by the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care; he was also a speaker at a meeting organized by Penal Reform International and Transparency International on “Inspections of places of detention”. On 15 April, the Special Rapporteur was keynote speaker of the Workshop B “Survey of United Nations and other best practices in the treatment of prisoners in the criminal justice system” on “Conditions of detention and the need for a United Nations convention on the rights of detainees”. On 17 April, the Special Rapporteur was a speaker on the topic “HIV/AIDS in prison settings” at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime meeting on “HIV and criminal justice”. 26. On 12 May, the Special Rapporteur gave two presentations in Port Vila, Vanuatu, entitled “From international recognition of the prohibition of torture to its implementation at the national level, or why is it worthwhile to ratify the Convention against Torture?” and “Good examples of accountability mechanisms for torture at the international level”, on the occasion of a round-table discussion and workshop on the prevention of torture and ill-treatment, organized by the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Regional Office for the Pacific of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and held in the presence of the President of Vanuatu. 27. On 24 May, the Special Rapporteur gave a lecture at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, on “The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on torture, and the prevention of torture”. 28. On 2 June, the Special Rapporteur together with other mandate holders presented their joint study on global practices in relation to secret detention in the context of countering terrorism (A/HRC/13/42) at the fourteenth session of the Human Rights Council. 29. On 7 and 8 June, the Special Rapporteur gave a series of lectures on the Convention against Torture and the prohibition of refoulement, organized by the Law Society of Hong Kong. 30. On 15 and 16 June, the Special Rapporteur held several meetings with representatives of the United States State Department and Congress in Washington, D.C., to discuss topics related to the country and the mandate. On 16 June, he held a meeting at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States to discuss the situation in Central America in relation to the mandate. On 18 June, the Open Society Institute organized a conference at which the Special Rapporteur presented his work and spoke about the United States and the fight against terrorism and torture. 8 10-48049