A/HRC/20/28 3. Human rights mechanisms 43. The Working Group subscribes to the absolute importance given by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 15/23 to coordination with other United Nations human rights mechanisms. In this regard, two members of the Working Group met with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in October 2011 to discuss modes of cooperation. The Working Group also held an exchange of views with the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child during its second session and with a member of the Human Rights Committee during its third session. The Working Group is expected to meet with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women during its fourth session in New York (23-27 July 2012). 44. The Working Group has engaged with other special procedure mandate holders. Informal meetings were held with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, and a joint statement on the importance of women’s voices during times of transitions and reform was issued on 8 December 2011 on the occasion of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.5 The Working Group has also contacted the newly established Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises to explore possible areas of collaboration. It has provided inputs to the draft guiding principles on foreign debt and human rights being elaborated by the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights. On 19 March 2012, the Working Group, along with 21 other special procedures mandate holders, co-sponsored an open letter calling on States to, inter alia, incorporate universally agreed international human rights norms and standards, including relating to gender equality, into the process leading up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 Conference) and into the outcome document of the conference. 45. Representing the Working Group, Mercedes Barquet attended the fourth session of the Forum on Minority Issues, held in Geneva on 29 and 30 November 2011, and side events on empowering minority women to claim their rights and violence against minority women and their access to justice. She delivered a statement on minority women and their effective participation in political life. The Forum was of particular interest to the Working Group, as it addressed the complex layers and interplay of various forms of discrimination that many women face because they are women and members of a minority group. It was also an opportunity to engage with NGOs and other stakeholders, and to inform them of the mandate, priorities and methods of work of the Working Group. 46. The Working Group places high priority on learning the views, issues and concerns of different regions, and is seeking to reflect regional diversity in its work, including by drawing on and centralizing the knowledge and resources of a range of stakeholders. The Working Group also intends to explore cooperation with regional human rights mechanisms, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in particular its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the InterGovernmental Commission on Human Rights of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children. 5 12 See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=11700&LangID=E.