A/HRC/22/17 During the second visit, the Special Rapporteur participated in a meeting between the Government and affected communities to discuss modalities for prior consultation with affected communities. The Special Rapporteur has, in close coordination with OHCHR and the United Nations country team, maintained discussions with the Government. OHCHR has developed a project to support consultations with the Térraba people. Gender equality and women’s rights 3. 13. This past year has seen steady progress in addressing violence against women and maternal mortality and morbidity. OHCHR collaborated with the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, including through the development and piloting, in South Sudan, of a training module on monitoring and investigating conflict-related sexual violence. OHCHR continued to promote reparations for women victims of violence. It launched projects in South Kivu to assist more than 1,000 women and girl survivors of sexual violence in their access to health care, education and training. OHCHR worked with authorities in El Salvador to develop a protocol for investigation of femicide. 14. OHCHR prepared technical guidance on the application of a rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes for the reduction of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, and organized a high-level launch event, with high-level representatives of United Nations agencies, States and civil society, to raise awareness thereon. 15. Women’s economic, social and cultural rights have also been a priority. OHCHR worked in partnership with United Nations entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women to enhance understanding of women’s rights to land and other productive resources, and developed promotional materials, such as a new publication on the right of women to adequate housing. The gender integration panel discussion held by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-first session, was an opportunity to expand knowledge about women’s enjoyment of these rights, and demonstrated the need to integrate gender perspectives in the post-2015 development agenda. 16. During the annual day of discussion on women’s rights hosted by the Human Rights Council at its twentieth session, OHCHR focused on remedies and reparations for women victims of violence, and women human rights defenders. In December, in Tunisia, OHCHR organized a meeting with women human rights defenders from the Middle East and North Africa to discuss the challenges they face and how the United Nations can support them. 17. OHCHR supported the Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice in Tunisia. The Working Group noted that the draft Constitution departed from the principle of “equality” between men and women, referring instead to the role of women as being “complementary” to that of men in the family. I reiterate the call of the Working Group on the Government to take all steps to safeguard the country’s achievements in equality and non-discrimination, and to further advance women’s rights. 18. OHCHR and other human rights mechanisms are also integrating a gender perspective. The Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights devoted her annual thematic report to the General Assembly to the enjoyment of cultural rights by women on an equal basis with men (A/67/287). In November, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances adopted a general comment on women affected by enforced disappearances.1 The Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related 1 See A/HRC/22/45. 5