A/HRC/36/24 agreement with 12 universities to provide support in setting up research centres on human rights education and building networks for knowledge-sharing. Together with UNESCO and the Arab Organization for Human Rights, the National Council for Human Rights of Egypt developed guidelines for education on democracy for youth, which includes sections on human rights and gender equality. Training on implementing the guidelines will be organized both within and outside educational institutions in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education, national specialized councils, UNESCO and civil society organizations. In Mexico in 2015, the Secretaría de Educación Pública developed methodological tools to facilitate the inclusion of gender and human rights perspectives in graduate programmes in social sciences, humanities and medical sciences and postgraduate programmes in social sciences and humanities. In Azerbaijan, the Commissioner for Human Rights established a human rights education network that provided information on human rights mechanisms and organized lectures and seminars on human rights. In Germany, some Länder have special programmes for human rights education with university departments serving as advisers. The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights reported collaboration between Dutch and Flemish universities to integrate human rights education into social work curricula. A network is currently being established to share good practices and actively advocate at various universities for a human rights-based approach to social work. 26. Extracurricular human rights education efforts targeting university students were also reported, such as a nationwide competition organized by the Russian Federation in 2016 on the content and methodology of legal education, or a series of prizes awarded to law students by the Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights in Hungary. The Association of Lawyers of Russia and OHCHR also developed educational games to increase the knowledge and skills of teachers, university lecturers, civil servants and law enforcement officials for the protection of human rights. In India, the National Human Rights Commission organized internship programmes for university students to increase their knowledge of human rights issues and the work of the Commission. Similarly, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea runs internship programmes for law students at the 12 universities with which it has signed related agreements. The Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary highlighted the internship programme it has run since 2009 in collaboration with partner law schools, which allows law students to experience at first-hand the human rights work of the Office and apply their knowledge through specific tasks carried out under the mentorship of staff members. 27. In the context of the movement of migrants and refugees, all the Länder in Germany have made efforts to facilitate access to higher education for refugees and there are several student initiatives supporting their integration, in line with the human rights commitments of the German academic world. Several universities are also conducting research on the integration of refugees. In Slovenia, the strategy for the internationalization of Slovenian higher education (2016-2020) guided the work of the Centre for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programmes, an affiliated entity of the Ministry of Education, which in 2016 organized training courses for 52 staff members of four universities on cultural differences, stereotyped thinking, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution across cultures. D. Civil servants 28. With regard to human rights training for civil servants, the Defensor del Pueblo of Ecuador has worked since 2014 on developing a sound methodology, based on learnercentred, participatory and experiential approaches, which has been condensed in policy guidelines, promoted through internal staff training and explained in methodological guides such as Vivo mis derechos! Manual de implementación para facilitadores y facilitadoras. Building on this work, in 2015-2016 through various educational activities the Defensor reached more than 36,000 individuals, particularly civil servants and civil society organizations. In Uruguay, the National Office of the Civil Service and the Secretaría de Derechos Humanos of the Presidency of the Republic signed an agreement in 2016 to strengthen the capacity of public administration officials in human rights; in that context, a 9