A/HRC/22/17
through improved training. The need for sufficient resources and enhanced follow-up on
reports and recommendations to improve impact was also highlighted.
35.
OHCHR continued to monitor and report on individual human rights violations. It
rolled out the Human Rights Case Database, a case management system designed to
systematize, harmonize and improve the collection, documentation and analysis of
violations, to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, the United Nations
Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau and the OHCHR Office in Tunisia. A
customized version of the Database was developed for use by commissions of inquiry and
fact-finding missions, and was used by the commissions on Libya and the Syrian Arab
Republic. OHCHR published eight chapters of the new OHCHR manual on human rights
monitoring.
36.
In October 2012, I released a report documenting and analysing serious violations of
international law during the 10-year (1996-2006) conflict in Nepal,10 together with a
database of approximately 30,000 documents, designed as a tool for Nepalese institutions
and civil society in seeking truth, justice and reconciliation. Unfortunately, six years since
the signature of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the transitional justice mechanisms
envisaged are still to be established, and successive Governments have withdrawn cases
before the courts.
37.
OHCHR provided technical advice to national authorities in Maldives, South Sudan
and Guinea-Bissau on the establishment of national commissions of inquiry to investigate
gross violations of human rights. In Brazil, the office organized seminars to share regional
experience on transitional justice. As part of its work on developing victim and witness
protection programmes, OHCHR supported national authorities in Burundi, Kosovo and
Uganda.
38.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
with advice from OHCHR, developed a United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of
Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed in April 2012 by the Chief Executives
Board. The Plan was designed to create a safe environment for journalists and media
workers in conflict and non-conflict situations through enhanced coordination and
collaboration among United Nations agencies.
C.
Poverty and economic, social and cultural rights
1.
Human rights and development
39.
The full integration of human rights, including the right to development, into the
work of United Nations system and in its support for States and other stakeholders remains
a priority. In the lead-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
(Rio+20), I launched a campaign to urge all States to support the full integration of human
rights into the Rio process. I welcomed the broad inclusion of human rights provisions in its
final outcome document.11 OHCHR is actively contributing to an ongoing process to
elaborate the post-2015 development agenda, which will continue to be prioritized. The
United Nations System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, of which
OHCHR is an active member, recommended that human rights be one of three fundamental
principles for the post-2015 development agenda, alongside with equality and
sustainability.
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See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/NepalConflictReport.aspx.
General Assembly resolution 66/288, annex.
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