A/HRC/29/17 human rights curricula were taught in both the general and higher education segments. Teachers were receiving training in the domain and were regularly updated on human rights issues, and provided with the Human Rights Education Manual. 17. Employees in the judiciary and law enforcement, as well as prison supervisors were trained with international organizations. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had also included in its development plan a major project that sought to consolidate the concepts and values of human rights, through specialized training courses in collaboration with local and international agencies. 18. Kuwait remained firmly committed to submitting its periodic reports to treaty bodies. Since the previous UPR in 2010, Kuwait had submitted reports to the Committee against Torture (CAT), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Human Rights Committee (HR Committee), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Furthermore, its third periodic report had been submitted to HR Committee in November 2014. In 2015, Kuwait would be submitting its third periodic report to CAT in June, its fifth and sixth periodic reports to CEDAW in October, and its first periodic report to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.in September. 19. Kuwait had welcomed the request by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences to visit the country during January–March. Kuwait had also welcomed the visit of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. However, owing to internal commitments related to the country’s presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit, the Arab Summit, and the African-Arab Summit, the visit had not taken place. The Permanent Mission in Geneva would take the necessary measures to agree with the Special Rapporteur on a date for the visit. 20. Kuwait had established consistent principles for providing humanitarian assistance to peoples of disaster-stricken countries and to poor nations. It had relied on guiding instruments that could assess the real humanitarian needs of those countries, bearing in mind that human rights issues could not be divided. This philosophy was summarized by His Highness the Amir when he said that since gaining its independence, the State of Kuwait had followed a consistent approach in its foreign policy, based essentially on the need to render humanitarian assistance to all needy countries, regardless of their geographic location, religious beliefs or ethnic composition, in keeping with its firm faith in international partnership and the importance of activating global efforts to maintain and preserve the quintessence of life itself, namely the human spirit. 21. Kuwait had spared no effort to ease the humanitarian crisis. For that reasons, His Highness the Amir had accepted the appeal of the Secretary-General to host the third donor conference to assist the Syrian people in Kuwait on 31 March 2015. It should be recalled that Kuwait had not hesitated to accept the requests of the United Nations to host the previous two donor conferences for the relief of the Syrian people, in 2013 and 2014. The international community had succeeded on those occasions in raising a total of 3.9 billion dollars, of which 800 million dollars had been contributed by Kuwait and paid in full to the United Nations relief bodies. 22. Accordingly, as a token of the international community’s appreciation for the important humanitarian role of Kuwait, His Highness the Amir was granted the title of “humanitarian leader” by the Secretary-General on 9 September 2014, and Kuwait was henceforth considered to be a “humanitarian hub”. In parallel, His Highness the Amir had also been granted awards and certificates of appreciation by many international humanitarian organizations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner 5