A/67/279 11. On 22 March, the Special Rapporteur participated in a meeting concerning the Global Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care. 12. On 4 April, the Special Rapporteur met with high-level officials from the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. 13. On 12 April, the Special Rapporteur delivered a statement to a public hearing convened by the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament in Brussels on the theme “Secret rendition and detention practices: how to protect human rights while countering terrorism?”. 14. On 14 and 16 April, the Special Rapporteur delivered a speech on torture in international law to the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. 15. On 9 May, the Special Rapporteur delivered a keynote speech on trafficking and torture at a meeting of the Human Dimension Committee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Vienna. 16. On 20 and 21 May, the Special Rapporteur participated in a round-table meeting on torture prevention in Kyrgyzstan. The meeting, held in Bishkek, concerned the implementation of recommendations contained in his report on his mission to Kyrgyzstan. 17. On 8 June, the Special Rapporteur participated in an informal expert discussion on the protection of human rights of persons deprived of their liberty, held in Geneva. 18. On 9 and 10 June, the Special Rapporteur participated in a regional workshop on the prevention of torture in the context of democratic transitions in North Africa, held in Rabat. 19. From 11 to 15 June, the Special Rapporteur participated in the nineteenth annual meeting of Special Rapporteurs, held in Geneva. On 13 June, he participated in an expert meeting concerning torture by non-State actors. 20. On 22 June and 2 August, the Special Rapporteur participated in meetings, organized by the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C., to discuss issues related to the mandate. 21. On 25 and 26 June, the Special Rapporteur participated in meetings of an expert panel on the death penalty, convened by Harvard Law School, United States of America. 22. On 17 July, the Special Rapporteur gave a presentation concerning the mandate at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 23. On 18 July, the Special Rapporteur visited the forensic and legal services of the human rights organization, Freedom from Torture, in London. 24. On 6 and 7 August, the Special Rapporteur participated in a workshop on technologies and human rights monitoring, convened at Stanford University, United States of America. 4 12-45812