A/HRC/27/39 6. During the period under review, OHCHR provided advice and/or assistance on the strengthening of human rights institutions in Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, the Kyrgyz Republic, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Oman, the State of Palestine, Panama, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somaliland (Somalia), Sri Lanka, the Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe. 7. OHCHR also provided assistance to activities aimed at the establishment of national human rights institutions in Benin, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Norway, and, also, the establishment of such an institution in the self-declared autonomous Puntland region of Somalia. 1. Africa 8. During the period under review, the OHCHR regional offices for Central, East, Southern and West Africa, the OHCHR country offices in Guinea, Togo and Uganda, the human rights advisers to the United Nations country teams in Chad, Kenya, Madagascar and Niger, and the human rights components of the United Nations missions in Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Somalia and Sudan continued to provide advice and assistance, in consultation with the National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms Section of OHCHR, for the establishment and/or strengthening of national human rights institutions in Africa. Legal advice 9. In August 2013, OHCHR provided legal advice on a draft law for the establishment of a national human rights institution in the Gambia, which was validated at a national workshop. In June 2014, OHCHR provided additional comments on the draft law with a view to removing shortcomings and aligning the text with the Paris Principles. 10. In October 2013, OHCHR provided legal advice on the draft legislation establishing a national human rights institution in Djibouti, which, as of June 2014, was awaiting adoption by the National Assembly. 11. OHCHR provided comments on the bill for the establishment of a human rights institution in Puntland, Somalia, as stipulated in the provisional constitution of Somalia. As of June 2014, the bill was before the Parliament of Puntland, pending broader consultations. In April 2014, OHCHR organized a round-table consultation in Garowe, Puntland, with 14 international partners to discuss the way forward in establishing a human rights institution. 12. In Sao Tome and Principe, in April 2014, OHCHR, together with UNDP and the Ministry of Justice, organized a workshop on the Paris Principles and the establishment of a national human rights institution and recruited a consultant to assist the Government in drafting the legislation. 13. OHCHR also provided legal advice on draft amendments to the enabling law of the human rights institution of Guinea-Bissau, particularly relating to the independence of the institution, in line with the Paris Principles. Capacity-building activities 14. In 2013, OHCHR and the Uganda Human Rights Commission pursued the implementation of their joint workplan and carried out activities to build the capacity of the Commission’s staff, mainly with regard to witness and victim protection and human-rights- 4