A/HRC/4/102
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Summary
In its resolution 2004/43, the Commission on Human Rights requested the
Secretary-General to submit a report to the Commission at its sixty-third session on
“systemwide practical measures taken and planned activities to assist countries in strengthening
their systems of administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice, including in post-conflict
situations, with special focus on the need to strengthen the role of judges”. The present report
provides examples of practical measures undertaken by the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) alone, or in cooperation with other
United Nations agencies, to assist countries in the strengthening of their systems of
administration of justice, inter alia juvenile justice, and including in post-conflict situations, that
have been undertaken or planned. Although not an exhaustive account of all activities
undertaken by OHCHR, the report covers a substantial number of situations (Angola,
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Bhutan, Cameroon, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia (Abkhazia), Guatemala, Iraq, Lebanon, Nepal,
Nicaragua, Palestine, South Africa and Tajikistan) where OHCHR has been involved in activities
relating to the administration of justice, and covers activities undertaken from 2004 through
2006, and, where available, includes information on planned activities in 2007. Activities
undertaken by OHCHR in the field of the administration of justice, including juvenile justice,
can be categorized as providing knowledge on human rights standards and, where appropriate,
international humanitarian law, through training, workshops and seminars; assistance in the
context of legal reform; specific technical cooperation projects, and monitoring of the judiciary,
prisons and police.
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