A/HRC/45/42 Haiti in the development and follow-up of its strategy for 2019–2024. OHCHR also continued to provide technical support and advice to that institution to establish a complaint mechanism and a reliable database. In December 2019, OHCHR supported the institution in the organization of a national human rights essay contest for young people and journalists, to boost the outreach strategy of the institution. 31. Between August and November 2019, OHCHR and the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico jointly organized and implemented a seminar on substantive equality and human rights of indigenous women in order to strengthen the capacities on and knowledge of women’s rights and gender perspective among civil servants. 32. In March 2020, OHCHR supported a review by the National Human Rights Commission of Honduras of its internal monitoring process, including data analysis, in order to strengthen the Commission’s capacity to respond to human rights violations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 33. In May 2020, OHCHR facilitated a dialogue between the Office of the Ombudsman of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and a platform of non-governmental human rights organizations, the creation of which had been promoted by OHCHR. 34. In June 2020, OHCHR provided technical support to the Office of the Human Rights Advocate of El Salvador to draft an amicus curiae brief regarding a petition for habeas corpus on the urgency to adopt measures to tackle the effects of COVID-19 on women criminalized and deprived of their liberty for having suffered obstetric emergencies, in the context of prison overcrowding. 35. In June 2020, OHCHR organized for the Office of the Ombudsman of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela six webinars related to the Paris Principles, the promotion and protection of human rights, the accreditation process for national human rights institutions, and cooperation with national stakeholders (including the judiciary and civil society) and the international human rights system. 3. Asia and the Pacific 36. During the period under review, the OHCHR regional offices for South-East Asia and for the Pacific, the OHCHR country offices in Cambodia and in Seoul for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the human rights advisers to the United Nations country teams in Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and TimorLeste, and the human rights component of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan provided advice on and assistance in the establishment and/or strengthening of national human rights institutions. The activities described below were carried out. 37. OHCHR provided technical advice to the Office of the Ombudsman of Tuvalu to strengthen its capacity. 38. In September and October 2019, in cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and the Regional Rights Resource Team of the Pacific Community, OHCHR conducted two scoping missions for the establishment of a national human rights institution in Kiribati. 39. In October 2019, during her official visit to Malaysia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights met with representatives of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia to enhance cooperation, including in the area of climate change adaptation and mitigation. OHCHR continued to support the engagement of the Commission with United Nations mechanisms and processes. 40. In November 2019, OHCHR organized a two-week human rights defenders school in Bangkok, whereby staff of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand was trained on human rights monitoring, reporting, documentation and advocacy, as well as on engagement with international human rights mechanisms. 41. In November 2019, in Seoul, OHCHR and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea co-hosted the 2019 international symposium on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, with a view to promoting peace and human rights in the 6