A/HRC/10/54 page 7 2. Africa 12. OHCHR supported the visit of a delegation from the National Human Rights Commission of India to the Uganda Human Rights Commission from 11 to 26 February 2008. The former body sent two of its staff members to assist in strengthening the complaints handling mechanism of the latter. 13. In March 2008, OHCHR and the human rights component of the United Nations Mission in Liberia were asked by the Ministry of Justice to comment on proposed amendments to the law establishing a national human rights institution. National consultations were held in July; the law is currently before Parliament. 14. From 13 to 15 October 2008, OHCHR and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime participated in a joint workshop organized by UNDP Mauritius to review the current and future mandate of the Mauritius Human Rights Commission. The Commission’s role in police oversight and a complaints system was discussed. The workshop also focused on the Paris Principles, recommendations of the ICC Subcommittee on Accreditation of the International Coordinating Committee, and best practices in equal opportunities and discrimination mandates. 15. In November 2008, the OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa participated in national consultations with civil society and members of parliament in Lesotho to discuss the law to establish a national human rights commission (the Human Rights Commission Bill 2007) and the relevant constitutional provisions. 16. The OHCHR Regional Office for Eastern Africa continued to support a 5-year internal capacity-building project of the Ethiopia Human Rights Commission, part of which focuses on treaty body monitoring. From 8 to 15 November 2008, members and staff of the Commission travelled to Geneva for an induction training on the treaty body process and met with members of treaty bodies and OHCHR staff. 3. Asia and the Pacific 17. In February 2008, OHCHR provided comments on the draft law establishing a human rights institution in Cambodia in line with the Paris Principles. The comments were made available to OHCHR Cambodia for sharing with national stakeholders. 18. In February and March 2008, in close cooperation with UNDP and the OHCHR Nepal Country Office, OHCHR undertook a project formulation mission to draft a 3-year project to support the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal, in line with two evaluation missions made in 2006 and 2007. 19. OHCHR supported a mission by the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, funded by UNDP Bangladesh, from 5 to 23 May 2008. The objective of the mission was to provide technical assistance and advice to the Government of Bangladesh on the establishment of a human rights institution, under the Bangladesh National Human Rights Ordinance 2007, which was to come into force on 1 September 2008.