A/HRC/37/3 Democratic Republic of the Congo, it organized two workshops with parliamentarians, the National Human Rights Commission and indigenous peoples to promote the adoption of a law to protect indigenous peoples’ rights and to enhance their participation in institutions and processes. In Guatemala, it facilitated the participation of indigenous representatives in the formulation of a policy of the Office of the Attorney-General on access of indigenous peoples to justice. It supported dialogue in Paraguay aimed at drafting guidelines for indigenous women on their rights to participation and consultation, non-discrimination and land. 28. OHCHR worked with State authorities in Kyrgyzstan to increase transparency of recruitment procedures to promote equal opportunities for members of ethnic minority communities. It also gave training on minority rights, including in Myanmar and Sri Lanka; in Nepal, it launched a guidance tool on descent-based discrimination, together with United Nations and civil society partners. Gender equality and women’s rights 4. 29. OHCHR pursued the integration of gender and women’s rights perspectives in its work and the protection and promotion of women’s human rights at various levels. At the sessions of the Human Rights Council, it organized five panel discussions in 2017 on topics ranging from maternal mortality and morbidity to the engagement of men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against women, to intersecting and multiple forms of discrimination and violence against women. 30. The Office also issued reports on ways to bridge the digital gender divide from a human rights perspective (A/HRC/35/9)and on the realization of the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl (A/HRC/35/11),and joined the EQUALS global partnership.2 In collaboration with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the United Nations Development Programme and UNODC, OHCHR produced a toolkit on access to justice for women. Together with the International Organization for Migration, it launched a video on unconscious bias in recruitment, to address a significant obstacle to equality and diversity. 31. The Office also conducted an independent evaluation of its regional gender advisers structure, which highlighted its unique effectiveness in achieving results at the regional level despite funding and staffing challenges.3 5. Discrimination on the basis of disability 32. In March 2017, OHCHR organized the annual debate of the Human Rights Council on the rights of persons with disabilities, which focused on equality and non-discrimination under article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and a one-day intersessional seminar on the protection of the family and disability. 33. In Benin, efforts made by OHCHR led to the adoption of a law on the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities. In Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, OHCHR supported consultations on the implementation of article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In Senegal, it strengthened a coalition of non-governmental organizations of persons with disabilities to engage with international human rights mechanisms. In Serbia, OHCHR facilitated the drafting of the first ever report on abuse and violence against women with disabilities in closed residential institutions, in collaboration with representatives of civil society and the national preventive mechanism. In the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, OHCHR engaged in capacity-building for more than 200 people on the rights of persons with disabilities and ways to counter discrimination against them. The Office assisted the West African 2 3 6 Established by the International Telecommunications Union, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the International Trade Centre, GSMA and the United Nations University (see www.equals.org/). See www.ohchr.org/Documents/AboutUs/Evaluation/RegionalGenderAdvisorsStructure.pdf.