A/HRC/22/32 international human rights treaties in domestic courts. The course was broadcast live on the judiciary’s television channel for public prosecutors and judges in several judicial regions throughout the country, including the primarily indigenous regions. Through these activities, 50 public prosecutors and judges have been able to increase their awareness, knowledge and skills relating to the application of human rights treaties and standards relating to indigenous peoples. In Togo, the justice and security ministries and OHCHR carried out a training programme on human rights norms in the administration of justice for magistrates and criminal investigative police officers. The programme was the first to bring together these entities and contributed to enhancing their understanding of and ability to apply human rights norms in their work. Similarly, OHCHR helped strengthen the capacity of law enforcement officials in Guinea-Bissau, including those in the penitentiary system, through training, monitoring, reporting and advising authorities on necessary measures. This contributed to a significant reduction of arbitrary detentions and ill-treatment in prisons and detention centres and prompted the creation of an interdisciplinary committee to provide support to the authorities in adequately managing the penitentiary system. 10. In 2012, OHCHR training activities included facilitating a training workshop on human rights in the administration of justice for magistrates in Djibouti; facilitating training-of-trainers for Somali judges, law professors and other legal professionals on human rights in the administration of justice; supporting a workshop for judges and prosecutors in Tunisia on human rights in the administration of justice organized by the International Bar Association; supporting two training workshops for Libyan prosecutors in Tripoli; conducting a needs assessment mission to Egypt on activities relating to the administration of justice, with particular reference to training of judges, law enforcement personnel and parliamentarians and contributing to a training workshop for Somali military judges in cooperation with the Human Rights Section of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia. 11. In addition, OHCHR continued efforts to ensure that individuals and groups facing discrimination, in particular women, minorities and indigenous peoples and people of African descent, have increased access to justice. For instance, in Kyrgyzstan, five Kyrgyz human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provided free legal aid for the population affected during, and in the aftermath of, the June 2010 violence in the southern part of the country, in order to contribute to the restoration of justice and promotion and protection of human rights. The five NGOs received technical and financial support from the OHCHR Regional Office for Central Asia and maintain a network of lawyers experienced in criminal law who are on-call seven days a week and provide immediate legal representation to arrested individuals. By the end of the year 2011, more than 12 legal clinics had been opened in several districts of Osh and Jalal-Abad regions, including in marginalized areas of the country. OHCHR also strengthened the capacity of judges, lawyers and civil society organizations on the judicial protection of economic, social and cultural rights through training activities in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Central America and Western Africa. B. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 12. UNODC, through four of its five thematic pillars – crime prevention and criminal justice; organized crime and trafficking; corruption; and terrorism prevention – supports States in building the capacity of justice systems to operate more effectively within the framework of the rule of law. In particular, as the guardian of the United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, its work includes paying attention to vulnerable groups as well as providing assistance to victims and witnesses of crime, improving access to justice (including access to legal aid), promoting restorative justice, preventing gender-based violence, promoting justice for children and supporting prison 5

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