A/75/44 (h) Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón attended a round-table discussion entitled “Global human rights architecture reform initiatives: lessons learned and challenges ahead”, organized by the Due Process of Law Foundation, held in Washington, D.C. on 1 and 2 November 2019; (i) Ms. Gaer and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov made presentations, on 21 and 22 November 2019, as part of the Minorities Fellowship Programme organized by OHCHR, and held in Geneva. II. Submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention 21. During the period covered by the present report, 19 reports from States parties under article 19 of the Convention were submitted to the Secretary-General. Initial reports were submitted by Malawi, Somalia and the State of Palestine. Second periodic reports were submitted by Chad, Ethiopia and Iraq. Third periodic reports were submitted by Costa Rica, El Salvador and Romania. Fourth periodic reports were submitted by Slovakia and Slovenia. Fifth periodic reports were submitted by Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein. A sixth periodic report was submitted by Colombia. Seventh periodic reports were submitted by Austria, New Zealand and Spain. Eighth periodic reports were submitted by Denmark and Switzerland. 22. As at 15 May 2020, the Committee had received a total of 467 reports and had examined 436; there were 25 States parties with overdue initial reports and 44 States parties with overdue periodic reports. A. Invitation to submit periodic reports 23. Further to its decision taken at its forty-first session (A/64/44, para. 26), the Committee continued during the period under review to invite States parties, in the last paragraph of the concluding observations, to submit their next periodic reports within a fouryear period from the adoption of the concluding observations, indicating the due date of the next report in the same paragraph. 24. In addition, further to its decision taken at its forty-seventh session (A/67/44, para. 33), the Committee continued during the period under review to invite States parties to accept, within one year from the adoption of the concluding observations, to report under the simplified reporting procedure, or, if a State party had already agreed to report under the procedure, to indicate that the Committee would submit to the State party, in due course, a list of issues prior to the submission of its next periodic report. B. Simplified reporting procedure 25. The Committee welcomes the fact that a high number of States parties have accepted the simplified reporting procedure, which consists of the preparation and adoption of a list of issues to be transmitted to States parties prior to the submission of a State party’s periodic report (known as the list of issues prior to reporting). The procedure is aimed at assisting States parties to fulfil their reporting obligations, as it strengthens the cooperation between the Committee and States parties (A/66/44, paras. 28–35). While the Committee understands that, since 2007, the adoption of lists of issues prior to reporting has facilitated the States parties’ reporting obligations, it nonetheless wishes to emphasize that the procedure of drafting lists of issues prior to reporting has increased its workload substantially, as their preparation requires more work than the lists of issues following the submission of a State party’s report. That is particularly significant in a Committee with such a small membership. 26. At its sixty-eighth session, the Committee adopted lists of issues prior to reporting with regard to the States parties that had accepted the invitation to submit their next report, due in 2020, under that procedure: Armenia, Ecuador, Finland, Monaco and Namibia. Those lists of issues prior to reporting were transmitted to the respective States parties. 27. Although the sixty-ninth session was postponed, the Committee adopted lists of issues prior to reporting prepared for it with regard to the States parties that had accepted the 5