A/HRC/44/37 on standards related to the protection of persons deprived of their liberty. This supports the training delivered to some 65,000 staff in five training centres throughout the country. Since 2016, Turkey has also participated in the European Penitentiary Training Academies Network.33 64. From 2015 to 2019, 764 prison staff underwent a four-month initial training course with financial and technical support from OHCHR Cambodia. The training covered relevant human rights standards on the protection of persons deprived of their liberty, including the Mandela and Bangkok Rules. OHCHR also supported 20 core trainers to assess the impact of the training course and receive feedback from former trainees and local prison management, in order to feed into the ongoing review of training modules for prison staff. OHCHR also supported and accompanied one-day visits to prisons for trainees and new recruits to contextualize the training on site in prisons. 65. The United Kingdom women’s policy framework contains gender-specific rules and guidance for prison and probation staff on how to manage and support women in custody and the community. Accompanying the framework is a guidance document on working with women in custody and the community. The document contains practical advice on how staff can deliver gender-responsive and trauma-informed practice in prison and community settings, including advice on persons with specific needs, such as perinatal women. A new training package entitled “Positive outcomes for women: enabling rehabilitation (POWER)” has been devised to develop the skills and knowledge of staff working with women in custodial and community settings. The package consists of 12 modules covering topics such as court and pre-sentence reports, maintaining family ties, foreign nationals and sex workers, enabling staff to respond to women in a gender-responsive and trauma-informed way. 66. In 2018, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and Penal Reform International produced a guidance document on the practical implementation of the Mandela Rules. The guide supplements a previous short guide to the Mandela Rules issued by Penal Reform International, in which the 122 Rules were summarized in an accessible format, and a toolbox on the Bangkok Rules, jointly produced with the Thailand Institute of Justice. The toolbox includes a guidance document, free e-course, a workbook for training, specific thematic briefings and a guide for prison staff on the mental health of women in prison. 67. In cooperation with the Thailand Institute of Justice, UNODC has developed a toolkit on gender-responsive non-custodial measures to support countries in their efforts to strengthen the capacity of police, prosecutors and judges in applying gender-responsive noncustodial measures. UNODC also published an e-learning course on alternatives to imprisonment for women offenders in 2016, which supports the UNODC handbook and training curriculum on women and imprisonment. 68. There is still broad scope for the use of non-custodial measures in terrorism cases, including for women who are accused or convicted of terrorism offences, in line with the Tokyo and Bangkok Rules. In support of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, UNODC and OHCHR organized a subregional training workshop on the gender dimensions of criminal justice responses to terrorism in Cameroon in 2017. Participants from Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and the African Union, discussed the role of women both as offenders and as victims, gender perspectives on the criminalization of terrorism-related offences and alternatives to detention. Similarly, the OHCHR East Africa Regional Office and UNODC conducted a joint project on strengthening the capacity of national Governments to integrate gender dimensions into criminal justice responses on terrorism. In 2019, OHCHR supported workshops for prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officials in Chad and Nigeria and convened a dialogue with the African Union Commission on integrating gender measures on security sector reform and preventing violent extremism. A UNODC publication on the gender dimensions of terrorism and a training manual for law enforcement officials in Nigeria was launched in 2019 with the support of OHCHR. A large component of the workshops and the manual focuses on the treatment of female prisoners and the application of the Mandela and Bangkok Rules. 33 See contribution from Turkey. 13

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