A/HRC/23/27 23. Subsequent to OHCHR advocacy and legal advice, the enabling law establishing the Benin Human Rights Commission was adopted by the National Assembly in December 2012. 24. In the Central Africa Republic, OHCHR and the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic provided the Government with technical assistance to ensure that the process to establish a national human rights institution was in line with the Paris Principles. The draft law, incorporating the advice given by OHCHR, was submitted in May 2012 by the Government to Parliament, where it is pending adoption. 25. During a joint mission, OHCHR and the International Organization of la Francophonie provided technical and legal advice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which resulted, in December 2012, in the adoption by Parliament of a law on the establishment of a national human rights institution. 26. The OHCHR Human Rights Adviser in Madagascar provided legal advice on a draft law establishing a national human rights institution, which is currently being discussed by the Government. 27. At the request of the Government of Chad, OHCHR provided legal advice on the draft law amending the founding law of the National Human Rights Commission to ensure its compliance with the Paris Principles. 28. OHCHR provided legal advice on a draft law amending the founding law of the human rights institution of Equatorial Guinea to improve its effectiveness and visibility. 29. OHCHR provided advice on the draft law amending the founding legislation of the Rwanda National Human Rights Commission further to the recommendation made by the Subcommittee on Accreditation that the institution be downgraded to B status. 30. OHCHR provided legal advice on the draft law amending the founding law of the national human rights institution of Togo, including its mandate as a national preventive mechanism under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. OHCHR also contributed to the induction training of new commissioners and their staff. 31. OHCHR, together with the International Organization of la Francophonie and Association francophone des commissions nationales des droits de l’homme, contributed to and participated in a training session for the members of the national human rights institution in Burundi on the Paris Principles and the accreditation procedure. As a result, the institution submitted its application for accreditation and was accredited A status by the International Coordinating Committee in November 2012. 32. OHCHR supported the conduct of national consultations as part of the process to establish a national human rights institution in the Niger, and provided advice on the draft legislation to ensure its compliance with the Paris Principles. On 24 August 2012, the law integrating the recommendations made by OHCHR was enacted. 2. Americas and the Caribbean 33. During the period under review, the OHCHR regional offices for South and for Central America, its country offices in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, the human rights advisers to the United Nations country teams in Ecuador, Honduras and Paraguay, and the human rights component of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) continued to provide advice and assistance, in partnership with the National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms Section, for the establishment or strengthening of national human rights institutions in the Americas. 6