A/HRC/22/32 45. UN Women, in partnership with UNDP and UNICEF commissioned a study launched in 2012, Informal Justice Systems: Charting a Course for Human Rights-Based Engagement, which offers the first comprehensive assessment of informal justice systems and human rights protection. 46. In 2012, UN Women carried out a mapping of specialized training for judges and lawyers on women’s human rights and gender equality issues, supported by the United Nations system, with a view to identifying the extent and types of capacity-building programmes and ascertaining good practices and lessons learned. 47. UN Women has supported various capacity-building initiatives for judges, magistrates, prosecutors, lawyers, paralegals and other legal actors in the formal and informal justice sectors in various countries. The training initiatives have focused in particular on sexual and gender-based violence, including during armed conflict, gender equality in the workplace, women’s rights within the family and women’s access to justice, including through transitional justice mechanisms. 48. For instance, since 2009 UN Women has been implementing a three-year project on women’s access to justice in conflict and post-conflict aimed at strengthening the rule of law, justice and security in Uganda by supporting the justice law and order sector. UN Women continues to work with the Ugandan justice law and order sector to inform the existing manual on the prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence crimes. Key activities include developing training materials for prosecutors, police and court staff on gender-sensitive investigations and prosecutions; helping to develop gender-sensitive rules of procedure building on international best practice and supporting the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions by building capacity for gender-sensitive prosecution. 49. UN Women supported an intervention in Kosovo: the project “Women Building Peace and Human Security in the Western Balkans: Implementing UN SCR 1325” focused on working with security sector agencies, including the Kosovo Judicial Institute and the Kosovo Judges Association. In respect of access to justice for survivors of violence, UN Women supported two initiatives of the justice sector: engaging judges and prosecutors in a dialogue on improved access to justice for women and training justice professionals on women’s human rights provided by the Kosovo Judicial Institute. 50. As part of a broader intervention in Albania on strengthening legal and institutional frameworks, between 2007 and 2010, UN Women supported capacity-building initiatives for judges and prosecutors on gender equality and women’s human rights. As a direct result of the work, the School of Magistrates’ courses on family law, labour law, criminal law and social assistance law have been revised to include gender equality and domestic violence content as well as legal obligations of duty-bearers. 51. In Kenya, UN Women supported the Kenya Women Judges Association in building the capacity of judges, magistrates and kadhis to apply international and regional human rights instruments in court decisions. With support from UN Women, a training manual was developed by the association which is currently used by judicial officers and there are plans to incorporate it into the judicial academy’s curriculum. One exemplary judgment that followed the training was a case of inheritance in which the judge, referring to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, ruled that a girl child can inherit land, reversing a custom that would have precluded such inheritance. 52. In Serbia, UN Women supported the development of educational modules on women’s socioeconomic rights, gender-based discrimination and gender equality in the workplace based on international and domestic law. In 2011, the modules were approved by the Judicial Academy’s Program Council and are now included as an integral part of mandatory Judicial Academy’s curriculum. In 2011, UN Women also supported development of a pool of experts consisting of judges and gender advocates from academia 12

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