A/HRC/39/20 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Support by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to national human rights institutions ............................................................................................. 3 A. Advisory services .................................................................................................................. 3 B. Support to regional and subregional initiatives of national human rights institutions .......... 7 C. Contributions to international initiatives supporting national human rights institutions ...... 8 Support from the United Nations Development Programme and other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to national human rights institutions ........................................ 8 Cooperation between United Nations human rights mechanisms and national human rights institutions ............................................................................................................... 9 III. IV. A. Human Rights Council ......................................................................................................... 10 B. United Nations treaty bodies ................................................................................................. 11 C. Other United Nations mechanisms and processes ................................................................ 11 V. Role of national human rights institutions with A status ............................................................... 12 VI. Recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 12 A. Recommendations to Member States .................................................................................... 12 B. Recommendations to national human rights institutions ...................................................... 13 Submissions from national human rights institutions to the Human Rights Council (September 2017–March 2018) ..................................................................................................... 14 Engagement of national human rights institutions in the third cycle of the universal periodic review (2017–2018) ......................................................................................... 18 Engagement of national human rights institutions in the work of the treaty bodies (September 2017–August 2018) .................................................................................................... 20 Annexes I. II. III. 2