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Parliament, and representatives of NGOs and of United Nations country teams from six countries
participated in the event. DAW also supported a workshop organized by the Cambodian
National Council of Women to build the capacity of Government officials and other stakeholders
to implement the Committee’s concluding comments on Cambodia.
27.
Since September 2003, OHCHR has, within the framework of a project entitled
“Strengthening the implementation of human rights treaty recommendations through the
enhancement of national protection mechanisms”, undertaken several training activities for
representatives of governments, NHRIs, NGOs, and the media in 20 countries. The overall
objectives of these activities are to increase the participation of civil society in the work of the
treaty bodies and to enhance the follow-up and implementation of treaty body recommendations
at the national level.
28.
From 22 to 24 February 2006, OHCHR organized in Nairobi, Kenya, the first regional
workshop for five African countries that have participated in the project, i.e. Kenya, Mauritius,
Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. The aim of the workshop was to discuss opportunities and
challenges related to treaty reporting and implementation processes and to ultimately exchange
practices and knowledge about activities that can enhance the implementation of the treaty
body recommendations. The workshop was followed by a three-day judicial colloquium for
judges and magistrates from the same five countries, in addition to South Africa and the
United Republic of Tanzania. The aim of the judicial colloquium was to exchange practices on
how international jurisprudence is or can be used by national courts. Three similar workshops
together with judicial colloquia are being organized for other regions in 2007.
29.
The fifth basic training workshop in the framework of this project took place in Geneva
from 10 to 14 July 2006 with participants from Mexico, Morocco and Georgia. Four follow-up
workshops were organized in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uganda, Thailand and Zambia between
August and November 2006 to take stock of and to analyse the level of implementation of all
treaty body recommendations issued for these countries, and to develop specific plans of action
to further enhance the implementation of the outstanding recommendations.
30.
OHCHR finalized a DVD training tool on the work of the treaty bodies, “The Treaty
Bodies - Bringing Human Rights Home”. The DVD was launched by the High Commissioner in
a public event attended by more than 200 persons on 10 July 2006 in Geneva.
31.
Following a recommendation of the seventeenth meeting of chairpersons of human rights
treaty bodies held in Geneva on 23 and 24 June 2005, the seminar on recommendations of the
United Nations Expert Bodies was held on 9 and 10 November 2006, parallel to the meeting of
the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation and
co-organized by the Treaties and Council Branch and the Policy, Planning, Monitoring and
Evaluation Section of OHCHR. Participants included representatives of human rights treaty
bodies, specialized agencies, staff of OHCHR field presences and members of the Board of
Trustees of the Voluntary Fund. The seminar focused on the format and substance of concluding
observations and on ways in which specialized agencies and OHCHR field presences could assist
in their implementation at the national level.
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