A/HRC/20/28 4. Other stakeholders 47. The Working Group believes that partnerships with civil society organizations are essential to the fulfilment of its mandate. Civil society organizations are providing useful inputs into the mandated work of the Working Group. The Working Group has already met with a large number of Geneva-based NGOs working on relevant issues and has received inputs from other NGOs in various regions. It is also engaging with academics. 48. The Working Group has issued calls for submissions to stakeholders to solicit information, documentation and material relating to its thematic priorities. It will consider additional means to collect relevant information, including through consultations and expert meetings. VI. Activities of the Working Group 49. As indicated above, the Working Group held three sessions during the reporting period. At its third session, from 27 February to 2 March 2012, the Working Group discussed, inter alia, its first country mission to Morocco, its participation in the session of the Commission on the Status of Women, and its statement on International Women’s Day. It held day-long discussions on its 2012 and 2013 priority themes with United Nations entities, NGOs and expert researchers, and agreed on a plan of action for carrying out its research agendas. As regards the latter, the Working Group is finalizing detailed questionnaires to gather inputs on the issues of discrimination against women in law and in practice in political and public life, and in economic and social life. It has conducted a mapping of resources on economic and social life and is currently conducting a mapping of resources on political and public life. The Working Group intends to contract experts to gather region-specific information, and will discuss and vet this information during its upcoming sessions and in the context of consultations and expert group meetings. Data and analyses will serve as the basis for the Working Group’s upcoming annual reports to the Human Rights Council and the compendium of good practices it is expected to produce. 50. The Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group participated in the eighteenth annual meeting of special procedure mandate holders, which was held in Geneva from 27 June to 1 July 2011. She was elected as a member of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures. 51. The Working Group, represented by its Chairperson-Rapporteur and Emna Aouij, undertook its first country visit to Morocco from 13 to 20 February 2012 at the invitation of the Government. The report on the country visit is available as an addendum to the present report (see A/HRC/20/28/Add.1). The Working Group thanks other States who have responded positively to its request for invitations to visit, namely, the Republic of Moldova, Tunisia and South Sudan, and encourages other States to consider extending invitations. The Working Group is expected to undertake its second country visit—to the Republic of Moldova—from 21 to 30 May 2012. 52. On 5 March 2012, the Chairperson-Rapporteur delivered a statement to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-sixth session (27 February–9 March 2012). She took the opportunity of her first address to introduce the mandate of the Working Group and inform the Commission of its 2012-2013 priorities. The Working Group sees the Commission as an important body through which the Working Group can engage with stakeholders, notably States and women’s civil society organizations, on equality and women’s human rights issues. Its participation in the sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women contributes to coordination with the Human Rights Council and a coherent approach to addressing the remaining obstacles to full equality and women’s human rights by the various bodies and mechanisms of the United Nations. 13