A/HRC/30/25 D. Guidance tools 31. OHCHR continued to support parliamentarians in fulfilling their role in protecting the rights of indigenous peoples. A handbook for parliamentarians, 3 jointly authored with UNDP, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, was officially released in the margins of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in September 2014. 32. Through wide-ranging consultations, OHCHR and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions completed a manual4 in 2013. The publication was translated into Russian, French and Spanish, and subsequently launched in June 2014 by the Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Section, and the OHCHR regional office for South Africa. National human rights institutions from Angola, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe participated in the training, which increased their understanding about operationalizing the Declaration at the country level. A meeting was organized in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, in October 2014 to discuss the role of national human rights institutions in the follow-up process to the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. 33. The OHCHR country office in the Plurinational State of Bolivia published a compendium of international norms relating to the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, an informative brochure on the right to free, prior and informed consultation and three studies on decision-making systems of indigenous peoples and nations (on the Captaincy of the High Parapetí, the Organization of the Mosetén Indigenous Peoples, and the Jacha’a Karangas Nation). 34. The OHCHR country office in Colombia published an updated versions of its publications on the right to consultation and prior, free and informed consent. E. OHCHR support for the rights of indigenous peoples at the country and regional levels 35. OHCHR field offices carried out a range of activities on indigenous peoples’ rights at the regional and country levels, including providing support to special procedures mandate holders. The present section describes select projects clustered under interrelated areas. For example, the absence of consultation or exclusion from development or mining projects may lead to forms of violence. 1. Right to participation, consultation and free, prior and informed consent 36. In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the office provided technical assistance during the drafting of a Law on Consultation, including through two legal opinions that set out the international human rights framework. In May 2014, the President submitted a bill to Parliament on prior, free and informed consultation The office is of the view that its prompt 3 4 Inter-Parliamentary Union, United Nations Handbook for Parliamentarians: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Geneva, 2014). Available from www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/democratic-governance/human_rights/IndigenousPeoples-Parliamentarians-Handbook.html. Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Manual for National Human Rights Institutions (Sydney, Australia, and Geneva, 2013). Available from http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IPeoples/UNDRIPManualForNHRIs.pdf. 7