A/HRC/37/3 joint efforts by the African Union and the United Nations to improve the integration of human rights into planning of peace operations. 2. Emergency response and early warning 87. Through its contingency fund and internal rapid deployment roster, OHCHR dispatched teams to Bangladesh, to conduct fact-finding activities on the situation of the Rohingya population in Myanmar; Angola, to undertake fact-finding on violence perpetrated in the Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Barbados, to provide advice on the integration of a rights perspective into humanitarian responses; the Congo, to conduct an assessment of the situation of human rights; Guatemala, to strengthen its country office; Mauritania, to support the country office in providing advice on a human rights-based approach to humanitarian affairs and development; and Qatar, to gather information on the impact of the Gulf crisis on human rights. OHCHR also employed its emergency capacity to conduct remote human rights monitoring of Turkey. It participated in two United Nations deployments to support the Director General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi with human rights expertise in the context of the presidential elections in Kenya, and also deployed human rights officers to Togo to assist the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the context of the political crisis. 88. In the context of the Human Rights Up Front initiative, OHCHR continued to work on the implementation of the common United Nations information management system, focusing on further developing and supporting stocktaking exercises by United Nations actors in Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mauritania, Somalia and Ukraine. 3. Sexual and gender-based violence, trafficking and related exploitation 89. OHCHR organized an expert panel discussion on general recommendation No. 35, adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, on gender-based violence against women, and arranged for its dissemination through video messages. 90. The Office supported the development and roll-out of the Secretary-General’s strategy to improve the Organization’s system-wide approach to preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse, issued in March 2017 (see A/71/818). It gave advice on human rights and inputs into the main areas of the strategy, namely (a) putting the rights and dignity of victims first; (b) ending impunity; (c) engaging with civil society and external partners; and (d) improving strategic communications for education and transparency. OHCHR also contributed to the development of several policy documents, such as a United Nations policy on balancing confidentiality and accountability when receiving and handling allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse, and a voluntary compact between the Secretary-General and individual Member States on preventing and addressing sexual exploitation and abuse. 91. In Guatemala, OHCHR provided training for members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the judiciary on international human rights standards and the principle of due diligence concerning femicide and violence against women. In Haiti, the Office facilitated training for the Directorate for Civil Protection (Direction de la protection civile) on sexual violence in conflicts and emergency. In Tunisia, the advice and advocacy provided by OHCHR contributed to the adoption of a human rights-compliant law on the elimination of violence against women. It also supported initial efforts to implement the law – the first of its kind in the region – particularly with respect to ensuring access to justice for victims. 4. Humanitarian action 92. OHCHR actively engaged in United Nations efforts to ensure respect for international human rights and humanitarian law in crisis settings. Human rights issues were increasingly raised in the discussions held by the subsidiary bodies of the InterAgency Standing Committee. 93. OHCHR continued to integrate human rights into the overall efforts of protection clusters, humanitarian country teams and humanitarian coordinators, including in relation to the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. It also continued to lead the protection cluster in 15