A/HRC/38/28 rise to a number of recommendations. In follow-up to the Independent Expert’s visit, the United Nations designed a comprehensive programme to strengthen protection of the human rights of persons with albinism, which included advocacy and awareness-raising, support for community-based protection mechanisms, a study on the root causes of the attacks, training and training materials for prosecutors and investigators, and capacitybuilding for the Association of Persons with Albinism, as well as education and health interventions. With United Nations support, the Government adopted an albinism action plan, which has enabled multisectoral work, putting persons with albinism at the forefront of the design and delivery of interventions, and introduced legislation with new crimes and harsher penalties. Support was provided for the collection of disaggregated data, as part of the 2018 census. Awareness of the need to protect persons with albinism has increased within communities and within the police, including through community policing forums. The programme involves OHCHR, UN-Women, UNICEF and UNDP, in partnership with the Government, civil society, the police, local authorities and traditional leaders. Remaining challenges include changing harmful cultural norms and beliefs, bringing the instigators of crimes to justice, the cross-border nature of the crimes and the frequent family involvement in them, and the low level of awareness of albinism. Notwithstanding these challenges, United Nations interventions have contributed to a downward trend in the number of attacks against persons with albinism: in the first six months of 2017, three murders were reported, as opposed to seven in the same period in 2016. 4. Persons with disabilities 47. Following the ratification by Belarus of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations in Belarus supported the preparation process for a national action plan, spearheaded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, aimed at inclusive implementation of the Convention. Joint efforts by UNDP, the Ministry of Information and civil society organizations have resulted in the adoption of an information strategy on disability. Furthermore, within the framework of the National Action Plan for Improving the Situation of Children and Protection of their Rights for 2017–2021, UNICEF in Belarus has been focusing on the most vulnerable groups of children, paying particular attention to the cross-cutting issues of disability, violence and adolescence. 48. In Jordan, with the technical support of WHO, the Ministry of Health developed the Mental Health and Substance Use Action Plan 2018–2021 to achieve target 3.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The action plan is in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities — representing a major step forward in improving the lives of people with mental disabilities. The action plan aims to avoid, as much as possible, services provided through mental health institutions, which are associated with numerous human rights violations and poor health outcomes; rather, it promotes full inclusion and participation in community life and access to quality health-care services as close as possible to people’s homes. This has important implications in terms of deinstitutionalization and the development of community-based mental health and social services. 5. Third gender, non-binary, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 49. In 2015, Cabo Verde became the first African country to implement the OHCHR-led Free and Equal public information campaign at the national level. The implementation involved the United Nations country team, under the coordination of UN-Women, and brought together the Cabo Verdean Institute for Gender Equality and Equity, the National Commission for Human Rights and Citizenship, and civil society. Based on the principle of leaving no one behind, has contributed to public visibility of discrimination and violence affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. Changing people’s level of awareness and advocating to eliminate barriers affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community are the driving objectives of the campaign, which is being put into action through awareness-raising and advocacy campaigns, knowledgesharing, and the mobilization of youth. Current efforts of the campaign include activities that will contribute to eliminating bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex adolescents and youth. 12