A/HRC/35/29 ` I. Activities 1. The present report covers the activities of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice undertaken since the submission of its previous report (A/HRC/32/44) until March 2017. A. Sessions 2. The Working Group held two sessions in New York and one in Geneva during the period under review.1 The roles of Chair-Rapporteur and Vice-Chair of the Working Group were carried out by Alda Facio and Kamala Chandrakirana, respectively. At its sixteenth session (18-22 July 2016), the Group held consultations on good practices with various stakeholders, including States, civil society organizations and relevant United Nations entities. It also met, inter alia, with the office of the Special Rapporteur on Women’s Rights of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 3. At its seventeenth session (10-14 October 2016), the Working Group continued its consultations on good practices. It held meetings with members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. It also held consultations with various concerned stakeholders on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. 4. At its eighteenth session (23-27 January 2017), the Working Group completed its work on the compendium of good practices. It chaired a round-table discussion on women migrant workers, organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), with the participation of members from the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, as well as State and civil society representatives. It also met with concerned United Nations entities, including UN-Women and UNFPA, on the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals. B. Country visits 5. The experts visited Hungary from 17 to 27 May 2016 (A/HRC/35/29/Add.1) and Kuwait from 6 to 15 December 2016 (A/HRC/35/29/Add.2). They wish to thank the Governments of those countries for their cooperation before and during the visits. It also thanks the Governments of Chad and Samoa for having invited the Working Group to conduct official visits in 2017. C. Communications and press releases 6. During the period under review, the Working Group addressed communications to Governments, individually or jointly with other mandate holders. The communications concerned a wide range of subjects falling within its mandate, including discriminatory legislation and practices, allegations of abuses of women human rights defenders and violations of their rights, gender-based violence and rights to reproductive and sexual health (see A/HRC/33/32, A/HRC/34/75 and A/HRC/35/44). The Working Group also issued press releases, individually or jointly with other mandate holders and treaty bodies. 1 During the previous cycle, two sessions had been held in Geneva and one in New York. 3