A/68/274 agenda for action to achieve progress, including through the ratification of the Optional Protocols and initiatives to promote a culture of zero tolerance of violence. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 75. In June 2013, the Special Representative and the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights met in Washington, D.C., to enhance their collaboration. They agreed to further strengthen their cooperation on children’s protection from violence, including through joint advocacy and awareness-raising and the development of thematic reports, including on the right of the child to a family environment, and the impact of organized armed violence on children. South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) 76. Important initiatives have been promoted in the framework of cooperation with SAIEVAC/SAARC member States, including a regional meeting on the elimination of harmful practices affecting children, held in Bhutan, in September 2013; and a course on “the Convention on the Rights of the Child and International Labour Organization child labour conventions: towards greater coherence in reporting and action”, held in Turin, Italy, in June 2013, and jointly promoted by the Special Representative, SAIEVAC and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization. 77. This capacity-building programme addressed international human rights and labour standards on children’s protection from violence in the framework of the SAIEVAC workplan for 2010-2015. With the participation of government officials of South Asia, representatives from civil society and workers’ and employers’ organizations, the meeting shared experiences of model interventions for addressing child labour and enhancing protection from violence, and explored opportunities to promote synergies among monitoring, reporting and planning mechanisms at the regional and national levels. Discussions also focused on the preparation of a South Asia child labour strategy for the third Global Conference on Child Labour, to be held, as mentioned above, in Brazil in October 2013. Council of Europe 78. The Special Representative further strengthened her cooperation with the Council of Europe. In the framework of the Council’s strategy for 2012-2015, which includes the elimination of violence against children as a core component, in November 2012, she co-organized, with the Council of Europe and UNICEF, the European conference on “Stepping up progress in combating violence against children”, hosted by the Turkish Government in Ankara. 79. The meeting provided a strategic occasion to take stock of the situation of violence against children in Council of Europe member States and to enhance progress in the development of integrated national strategies. The key findings from the global progress survey conducted by the Special Representative, to which 27 Council of Europe member States have contributed, constituted a key reference for this process. Important national experiences on tackling violence against children were shared, through both government and civil society initiatives, making possible a richly productive process of learning and cross-fertilization across the region. 13-41970 19/26