A/HRC/35/29 D. Other activities 7. A member of the Working Group attended the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held in New York from 13 to 17 March. She participated, inter alia, in a high-level interactive dialogue on accelerating the implementation of commitments contained in the agreed conclusions for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, in an event on strengthened cooperation between the international and regional human rights mechanisms on women’s rights and participated in several consultations. She met with the Secretary General together with a group of women’s rights experts. 8. A member of the Working Group participated in the 2016 Forum on Business and Human Rights, where she spoke on 14 November in a panel discussion on embedding gender in the business and human rights agenda. 9. In September 2016, the Chair participated in the thirteenth annual forum of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, on the theme “Feminist futures: building collective power for rights and justice”, attended by more than 2,000 activists from all regions of the world. 10. In May 2016, a member of the Working Group attended the Symbolic Tribunal on Maternal Mortality and Obstetric Violence, held in Mexico and co-organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR. II. Thematic analysis: good practices in the elimination of discrimination against women and women’s empowerment A. Introduction 11. The present report focuses on good practices in the elimination of discrimination against women in law and practice and women’s empowerment pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 15/23, in which the Council established the mandate of the Working Group, including the collection of best practices in the area of the mandate and the development of a compendium of best practices. 12. The Working Group, in establishing its conceptual framework and working methods (A/HRC/20/28), decided to use the term of “good” or “promising” practices rather than “best” practices, taking into account the complex contextual framework of the wide spectrum of good to bad practices. 13. The present report builds on the Working Group’s first six years of work, of which investigating good practices was a core undertaking. It is the fruit of a long-term process of inquiry and consultation undertaken with States, United Nations agencies and civil society. It is informed by the Group’s 4 thematic reports and 12 country visits, as well as data gathered through research and consultations held specifically for the present report. 14. The Working Group wishes to express gratitude for the information submitted by diverse stakeholders in response to its questionnaire. 2 In order to ensure diverse inputs, the Group also benefitted from the support of a team of researchers based in all regions of the world, coordinated by the Women’s Human Rights Education Institute. It also held consultations with States, civil society organizations and United Nations entities when support was available. The enormous amount of data received goes well beyond the bounds of the present report and is available on the Group’s website.3 2 3 4 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WGWomen/Pages/CompendiumGoodPractices.aspx. Ibid.