special rapporteurs. Neither the Fourth Committee nor the Decolonization Committee employ such mechanisms -- even as these modalities have been suggested over the years, and were a part of the Plan of Implementation (POI) of 2006 endorsed by the General Assembly. CAR Are you suggesting, then, that decolonization be addressed by the human rights mechanisms? CGC In principle, it is already on the agenda of many human rights bodies. There simply needs to be some concrete activities to strengthen the connection with the decolonisation bodies. The special mechanisms employed by the Human Rights Council, for example, provide for special rapporteurs or independent experts to focus on specific human rights issues. If the Decolonization Committee is still adverse to  employing such special mechanisms, then perhaps the Human Rights Council can be persuaded to do so. A Special Rapporteur on the self-determination of non self-governing territories could be empowered to investigate the situation on the ground in the territories themselves. Interestingly,such a proposal was made several years ago to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples (PFII) for the creation of a Special Rapporteur to address the status of the self-determination process of indigenous peoples in non self-governing territories, and to hold an international seminar on the issue. But there was resistance to this approach. CAR These are innovative recommendations which I suspect are regarded as "outside of the box." CGC Or "outside the basket." There are consistent calls by a number of member states, and by the present and previous secretaries general,