A/HRC/34/3 contributed to strengthening capacities to implement legal and policy frameworks on women’s rights in Afghanistan. 37. Support was given to develop training materials on judicial gender stereotyping (for the Council of Europe), femicide (an online course), and sexual and reproductive health and rights (Reflection Guides). The Office also commissioned a study on the role of the judiciary in addressing gender stereotypes in cases related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. 38. OHCHR emphasized the use of a human rights-based approach towards implementing the Sustainable Development Goals related to women’s rights and gender equality. For example, it supported efforts by the Ministry of Health of Uganda to integrate human rights principles into a draft multisectoral strategy to reduce preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. 39. An improved understanding of sexual and reproductive health and rights was achieved by convening multi-stakeholder meetings in Costa Rica; holding workshops to build knowledge and skills in Mexico, the Middle East and West Africa; connecting activists with human rights mechanisms through webinars in Argentina; conveying the importance of a human rights-based approach in addressing Zika and sexual and reproductive health in Honduras; and the wide dissemination of the OHCHR information series on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. 4 40. Building on the work of the Human Rights Council on child, early and forced marriage, OHCHR convened an expert group meeting in October to discuss the obstacles to ending these harmful practices. Through the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), OHCHR collaborated with policewomen, departments of women’s affairs, religious leaders and provincial governors to promote respect for women’s rights and a common understanding that certain traditional practices are not only harmful but also contrary to sharia. In West and Central Africa, Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia, OHCHR worked with national partners to promote increased participation of women in elections and public affairs. 5. Discrimination on the basis of disability 41. During the thirty-first session of the Human Rights Council, OHCHR supported the annual debate on the rights of persons with disabilities, which focused on persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies. 42. OHCHR continued to assist Governments to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In Chile, OHCHR supported a regional seminar on sexual and reproductive rights for persons with disabilities, drawing upon the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the topic. This event led to the establishment of a governmental working group to develop policy guidelines to advance the issue. In the Gambia and South Africa, OHCHR assisted the Government to harmonize national laws with the Convention. In Tunisia, following continuous advocacy by OHCHR, a law was passed in May improving the framework law on the promotion and protection of persons with disabilities. In Senegal, OHCHR strengthened the capacity of a coalition of persons with disabilities to engage with international human rights mechanisms. In Timor-Leste, OHCHR worked within a joint United Nations agency programme to empower persons with disabilities to counter discriminatory attitudes towards them. 4 8 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WRGS/Pages/HealthRights.aspx.