A/HRC/33/27 31. During the session, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment participated in a press briefing organized by OHCHR. In his statement, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment emphasized that climate change interferes with human rights and that States must ensure that their climate change actions meet their human rights obligations and referred to the OHCHR report entitled “Understanding human rights and climate change”, dated 26 November 2015. The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples mentioned the role played by indigenous peoples in the front line of climate change, including their active participation in the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties and in Human Rights Council sessions in respect of resolutions that link human rights and climate change. 32. More than 250 indigenous delegates participated in the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties and advocated for the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ rights in the legally binding Paris Agreement, the preamble to which contains references to the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights. G. Development of national action plans 33. The office in the Plurinational State of Bolivia provided technical assistance for the development of a national action plan on realizing the rights of indigenous peoples, in compliance with the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (General Assembly resolution 69/2). The office encouraged the Government to develop the plan in consultation with indigenous peoples and with the ongoing involvement of rights holders and to include in the plan a monitoring strategy for effective implementation. The process was led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and involved officials from the Ministry of Development Planning and other parts of the executive branch and indigenous peoples’ representatives. III. Human rights bodies and mechanisms A. Participation of indigenous peoples in United Nations processes 34. Every year OHCHR undertakes a number of capacity-building activities so that indigenous peoples can improve their knowledge of and participation in United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms. 35. During the reporting period, 31 indigenous peoples’ representatives from Algeria, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, the Russian Federation and the Solomon Islands participated in the annual indigenous fellowship programme, which took place in Geneva in July 2015. Of the participants, 13 were men and 18 were women. For the first time, an indigenous person with a disability also participated in the fellowship programme, which included sessions on the United Nations system and international human rights instruments and mechanisms. The fellows were introduced to issues of particular relevance to indigenous peoples, such as the human rights of indigenous peoples in the context of business and extractive industries, international financial institutions and women’s rights. All the fellows attended the eighth session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, at which they organized their own side event on the topic of land management and indigenous peoples. Moreover, three indigenous fellows who attended the training in 7