A/HRC/16/20 engaged in United Nations efforts to better protect women and children from sexual violence in conflicts. In addition to monitoring, investigation and reporting in the field to protect women from sexual violence and ensure accountability where it occurs, OHCHR has actively participated in the implementation of Security Council resolution 1888 (2009) through the recruitment of a human rights officer to be a member of the team of experts, and looking at the possible inclusion of woman protection advisers within human rights components of peace missions. 2. Rapid response capacity 75. The OHCHR Rapid Response Unit has continued to support and contribute to shortterm missions, fact-finding missions and commissions of inquiry aimed at ensuring accountability and providing technical advice in the aftermath of crises as well as in the implementation of resolutions of the Council in this area. 76. In the immediate aftermath of emergencies, OHCHR supported field presences through the deployment of temporary surge capacity missions. In January 2010, OHCHR developed a comprehensive strategy to support the Human Rights Section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to respond to the protection crisis that erupted as a result of the earthquake in Haiti. A total of 15 staff were deployed over a period of six months to monitor the human rights situation in camps for internally displaced persons and to lead the Protection Cluster. In February 2010, as a result of the deteriorating human rights situation in Togo, OHCHR deployed a team of three human rights officers and one logistician to assist the field office to monitor the human rights situation and enhance national capacity for monitoring human rights in the context of the presidential election. In response to the outbreak of violence in the south of Kyrgyzstan in June 2010, OHCHR deployed eight staff in the immediate aftermath of the crisis to monitor the human rights situation in the area. In this context, OHCHR has been leading the Protection Cluster’s Human Rights Sub-Group in the South of Kyrgyzstan. 77. In July 2010, OHCHR provided operational and technical support to the Committee of independent experts established by Council resolution 13/9 “to monitor and assess any domestic, legal or other proceedings undertaken by both the Government of Israel and the Palestinian side, in the light of General Assembly resolution 64/254, including the independence, effectiveness, genuineness of these investigations and their conformity with international standards”. OHCHR subsequently appointed a secretariat to support the Committee. The final report of the Committee was submitted to the Council’s fifteenth session on 23 September 2010. 78. From June to September 2010, the Rapid Response Unit provided the same type of operational and technical assistance to the independent, international fact-finding mission established by the Council resolution 14/1. OHCHR established a secretariat to support the fact-finding mission. The final report of the fact-finding mission was submitted to the Council’s fifteenth session on 27 September 2010. 3. OHCHR and humanitarian action 79. Mainstreaming human rights in humanitarian action is central to the OHCHR mandate — promoting and protecting the effective enjoyment by all of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, in situations of armed conflict, violence and insecurity including in the context of natural disasters. Key to this is the Office’s engagement with humanitarian partners and, in particular, with United Nations agencies in view of its role to coordinate the human rights promotion and protection activities throughout the United Nations system. 16