A/HRC/23/27 58. OHCHR Tunisia held a meeting with the Higher Committee for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Tunisia to establish contact with the new President and to explore possibilities of technical assistance and cooperation. As a result of the legal advice given by OHCHR, provisions relating to national human rights institutions were included in the new Constitution. 59. OHCHR provided technical support to the Independent Commission for Human Rights in relation to monitoring and documenting human rights violations and abuse committed by Palestinian duty-bearers. The OHCHR sub-office in Gaza provided technical support in reviewing a number of Commission training modules, including a training manual for the Palestinian police, to be published jointly by OHCHR and the Commission in 2013. 60. On 14 and 15 January 2913, a conference on the theme “Strengthening the capacity of national institutions for the protection of human rights in the Arab region” was held in Doha. The event was jointly organized by the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar and OHCHR. The conference focused on supporting national human rights institutions when addressing current challenges in the region and strengthening their capacity to work in accordance with the Paris Principles. 61. In Lebanon, OHCHR took an active role in drafting a law on a national human rights institution, designated as a national preventive mechanism. The draft law was approved by the Administration and Justice Committee of Parliament in December 2012 and is pending adoption by the plenary. 62. OHCHR, UNAMI and UNDP provided training and support to the newly established national human rights institution of Iraq. 63. UNSMIL conducted induction training for the newly established human rights institution in Libya. B. 1. Support of the Office of the High Commissioner for regional and subregional initiatives by national human rights institutions Americas and the Caribbean 64. In January 2012, OHCHR participated in the annual General Assembly of the Network of Americas National Human Rights Institutions. OHCHR reiterated the importance of a strong regional network of Paris Principles-compliant institutions, and shared experience and good practices of activities conducted by other regional networks of human rights institutions, in particular the capacity assessment project developed and implemented by OHCHR, UNDP and the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions. 2. Africa 65. In May 2012, the OHCHR Central Africa regional office organized, in Bujumbura, the third meeting of national human rights institutions from the Central Africa subregion. Representatives of human rights institutions from nine countries participated in the meeting, which focused on capacity-building of institutions in the area of economic, social and cultural rights. 66. In July 2012, the OHCHR East Africa regional office organized a training workshop on monitoring economic, social and cultural rights for the national human rights institutions of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania. The activity provided the institutions with relevant tools to fulfil their monitoring mandate. As a result, shortly 10