A/HRC/34/43 Committee of the Red Cross, with the support of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, participants were made aware of various issues relating to human rights, international humanitarian law in the context of peacekeeping, the fight against gender-based violence (with an emphasis on the relevant guidelines issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations) and the protection of civilians. 61. With regard to the reform of the justice sector, the country office continued to contribute to the work of the national commission responsible for revising the Criminal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Code of Military Justice and the Civil Code. 62. The revised Criminal Code and the revised Code of Criminal Procedure were adopted on 4 July by the National Assembly and promulgated on 7 October by the President of the Republic. They take full account of human rights and specific issues related to gender-based violence, in accordance with the relevant international legal instruments to which Guinea is a party. 63. The country office focused on strengthening coordination mechanisms for stakeholders working to combat gender-based violence. To this end, it revitalized regional committees for the prevention and management of gender-based violence in the regions of Nzérékoré and Kankan. This approach made it possible to monitor the actions of stakeholders in the fight against such violence, develop partnerships, expand existing mechanisms and strengthen capacities for collecting, processing and exchanging information. 64. The country office also conducted a campaign to raise women’s awareness of their role in promoting and protecting human rights in general and fighting gender-based violence in particular. The women concerned, who were selected from women’s groups, have begun to raise the awareness of rural women through a media-supported campaign that has reached over 150 individuals. 65. The country office is also engaged in drafting and finalizing the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund project “Support for justice sector reform and the fight against impunity in Guinea” in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme. Developed in response to needs that had repeatedly been expressed by the Government of Guinea, this project focuses on three main goals: making the military justice system operational, improving the criminal justice system and establishing access to justice, especially for women and minors. 66. In the area of mining sector governance, the country office provided technical and financial support in March, April and July to the National Assembly commissions on mining and the environment to enable them to conduct two field visits to Haute-Guinée (Kouroussa, Kankan, Siguiri and Dinguiraye) and Basse-Guinée (Conakry, Boké, Boffa, Dubreka and Forécariah), which are considered to be risk areas. These field visits enabled the members of these commissions to monitor the implementation of national legislation on mines and the environment, transparency in mineral-resource management and the mainstreaming of human rights in the protection of the environment and mining communities. In September and October, the country office undertook capacity-building activities in each administrative region of the country aimed at members of consultation committees in mining towns to ensure that greater account was taken of human rights concerns in conflict prevention and management in mining areas in Guinea. The participation of regional governors in each of these regional activities reflected the importance of human rights issues in mining areas in view of their contribution to the national economy. 67. As to the national independent human rights institution, during the reporting period it was involved in providing training to law enforcement officials on the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in June and then to local 12 GE.17-00658