A/HRC/33/33 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Support of 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 by national human rights institutions ......... 10 C. Contributions to international initiatives supporting national human rights institutions ...... 11 Cooperation between the United Nations human rights mechanisms and national human rights institutions ........................................................................................... 12 A. Human Rights Council ......................................................................................................... 12 B. Treaty bodies ........................................................................................................................ 13 Recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 13 A. Recommendations to Member States.................................................................................... 13 B. Recommendations to national human rights institutions ...................................................... 14 I. Submissions from national human rights institutions to the Human Rights Council .................... 15 II. Engagement of national human rights institutions in the second cycle of the universal periodic review (2014-2015) ............................................................................... 22 Engagement of national human rights institutions in the work of the treaty bodies (September 2014-August 2016) .................................................................................................... 26 III. IV. Annexes III. 2 GE.16-11355