HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS landmark judgment in favour of the Ogiek peoples in Kenya, making multiple references to the communications and country visit report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. In October, UN Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights launched a Joint Action Mechanism to Contribute to the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas through reinforced collaboration between the two organizations on emblematic cases and situations concerning human rights defenders. Regarding the human rights treaty bodies, at the twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of Chairpersons of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies, the following recommendations were adopted to: inform the General Assembly about overdue reports to the treaty bodies; strengthen a common approach of the treaty bodies to engagement with NHRIs; and closely follow the accountability framework for the implementation by States of the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In addition, as part of the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and UN Human Rights convened an event on “Strengthening cooperation between the international and regional human rights mechanisms on women’s rights,” to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the international human rights mechanisms for the protection of women’s rights. Subsequently, the Secretary-General requested that UN Human Rights, UN Women and the Department of Political Affairs collaborate to develop a system-wide strategy to protect norms and standards on gender and women’s rights at intergovernmental fora. International human rights mechanisms and early warning The HRC continued to address emerging and ongoing human rights crises in a number of situations. For example, in March 2017, the Council established a commission of inquiry on the human rights situation in Myanmar; in December, the Council held a special session on the situation of human rights of the minority Rohingya Muslim population and other minorities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, and extended the mandate of the Commissions of Inquiry on Burundi and the Syrian Arab Republic. Furthermore, the Council requested the deployment of a team of international experts to engage with Burundian authorities, in addition to a team of international experts to collect and preserve information concerning the events in the Kasai regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to forward their conclusions to the judicial authorities. Finally, the HRC requested the establishment of a Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen. The special procedures sought to enhance their early warning capacities and, in 2017, they undertook early action on concerns pertaining to the Central African Republic, Libya, Myanmar, the Philippines, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, including through communications, reports to States, statements and press releases. The special procedures also raised the alarm about worrying developments in relation to thematic issues, such as climate change and migration, urging States and other stakeholders to take early action on these matters. UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 15