A/HRC/5/9 page 19 B. Redress for victims of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law 47. OHCHR has continued to focus on the question of redress for victims of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law since the 2005 adoption by the Commission on Human Rights of the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law. Most recently, in April 2007, OHCHR organized a Regional Seminar on Transitional Justice in Sarajevo which, inter alia, discussed victims’ rights to a remedy and reparations and national consultations for transitional justice mechanisms. OHCHR has also prepared a draft implementing tool on reparations programmes, which is intended to assist in the implementation of the principles contained in the Basic Principles as well as in the Updated Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights through Action to Combat Impunity. The tool focuses on how to establish “out of court” reparations programmes to help redress the cases of gross violations of human rights following a conflict or authoritarian rule. Consultations with a number of governments on this question are ongoing. C. Collaboration with the Lebanese Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights 48. OHCHR and UNDP have a very fruitful ongoing collaboration with the Lebanese Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights on a number of human-rights related activities, in particular in the development of a National Plan of Action on Human Rights for Lebanon. Sectoral studies that will feed into the National Plan of Action on Human Rights are ongoing and OHCHR is participating and presenting commentary and analysis for those studies. This collaboration will be further strengthened during the year with the development of capacity-building programmes. VI. CONCLUSION 49. The present report outlines a wide range of activities and programmes launched by the international community that give concrete follow-up to the Commission of Inquiry’s recommendations. It also highlights the importance of integrating human rights in any recovery process to ensure increased sustainability, as can be seen clearly in post-war Lebanon. The range of activities giving effect to the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry is to be warmly welcomed, as are all efforts to integrate human rights in the reconstruction process. -----