A/HRC/44/20 workplan. The committee includes the participation of OHCHR and 21 representatives of 10 State institutions: the Vice-presidency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry for Penitentiary Services, the Ministry of Defence, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of Public Defence, the Supreme Court of Justice, the military jurisdiction and the Office of the Ombudsperson. The Coordination Committee has met 10 times, holding substantive discussions around key areas of cooperation and human rights concerns, and increasing constructive engagement by the authorities. 72. OHCHR organized two training workshops for State officials, to guide the adoption of an inclusive and participatory methodology for the development of the second national plan for human rights and the establishment of a national mechanism for reporting and follow-up of recommendations of international human rights mechanisms. OHCHR will subsequently provide technical advice to the State’s proposals on the road map to establish a national mechanism and the methodology for the adoption of the human rights plan of action. OHCHR also organized a workshop for State officials on the United Nations special procedures system and facilitated dialogues with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. 73. OHCHR conducted missions to Maracaibo, Zulia State; Ciudad Bolívar and Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State; and Barquisimeto, Lara State. It is grateful to the Government for facilitating the visits. 74. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has agreed to a visit by the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights. The date of the visit is pending, owing to restrictions related to the COVID19 pandemic. The country also reiterated its invitation to the Special Rapporteur on the right to development who, as a result of the pandemic, would not be able to accommodate a visit in 2020. The country has expressed its commitment to inviting a third mandate holder in 2020. 75. OHCHR has also pursued technical assistance to strengthen the justice system, by developing technical advice for the incorporation of the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016) and the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul Protocol) into national investigations of suspected extrajudicial killings and allegations of torture and ill-treatment. OHCHR provided technical assistance to the Office of the Ombudsperson, by organizing a series of training activities to assess its capacity-building and methodological needs and initiating an assessment of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture, in order to enhance its capacities to effectively prevent cases of torture. OHCHR is also providing technical assistance to identify factors that affect the situation in preventive detention centres; to assess the impact of sanctions on human rights; and to update police force protocols on the use of the force. 76. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the “state of alarm” declared on 13 March affected the implementation of technical cooperation. On 12 May, the Coordination Committee agreed to prioritize a series of technical assistance activities in the context of the restrictions and reaffirmed its commitment to fulfilling most areas of technical cooperation by the end of September 2020. Such areas include capacity-building of officials of the justice system and of law enforcement, and updating the human rights-compliant standard operating procedures of law enforcement. 77. The Coordination Committee has also addressed cases of persons deprived of liberty that were submitted by OHCHR. Since June 2019, OHCHR has referred 244 documented individual cases (230 men and 14 women) that required urgent solutions owing to health reasons, judicial delays, non-execution of judicial release orders and/or continued detention despite completion of sentences. The Coordination Committee provided information on the judicial status of the cases and on the measures taken to address the humanitarian, penitentiary and judicial concerns with regard to over 102 cases. 78. Since September 2019, in the context of the national dialogue launched by the Government with minority opposition parties and through the referral of the Commission on Truth, Justice, Peace and Attention to the Victims of Political Violence, the judiciary 13