A/HRC/15/34 indigenous community and designed projects to mitigate the impact of the plantation on peoples’ livelihood and land. 18. In Nepal, the Durban Review Conference Follow-up Committee, established with the support of the OHCHR-Nepal, held a meeting with the country’s Prime Minister in January 2010 and submitted a memorandum that includes the concerns of indigenous peoples and calls for the effective implementation of the ILO Convention No. 169 and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. OHCHR-Nepal further followed-up with the Government on recommendations by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination so as to ensure effective and meaningful participation of indigenous peoples in the ongoing constitution-making process. 19. In Cameroon, the OHCHR Regional Office for Central Africa provided advice to the Ministry of Social Affairs in the preparation of a draft law on the rights of marginalized populations, advocating for a dedicated law to recognize and protect the rights of indigenous peoples in Cameroon. The human rights and challenges faced by indigenous peoples in Cameroon were raised during the drafting of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Cameroon. The Office also made a technical contribution to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) preparation of a negotiation strategy for formal agreements of joint management of the national park of Campo Ma’an in eastern Cameroon between local indigenous peoples and the local administration in April 2009. 20. The Human Rights Adviser in Ecuador, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, has been working on the issue of coordination between ordinary and indigenous systems of justice with a view to preparing a draft law on the issue. It also developed training modules on indigenous justice addressed to police, military national institutions and justice officials and organized pilot training workshops to validate the contents of the modules. 21. In the same vein, OHCHR-Bolivia provided technical advice to the Ministry of Justice on legal pluralism and indigenous justice. It also jointly organized, with the Ministry of Autonomies, an international seminar on indigenous autonomy and its human rights implications. Both activities contributed to improving understanding and implementation of key reform proposals relating to indigenous peoples, including provisions of the new Constitution. 22. In the context of the project to contribute to the eradication of racism and ethnic and gender discrimination, particularly against indigenous women, OHCHR-Guatemala supported the design and launching of the second phase of the National Campaign for Coexistence in Cultural Diversity, entitled “Indigenous women have rights; we demand that they are met”. It further disseminated, together with the Social Studies and Research Association (ASIES), recommendations contained in the OHCHR-ASIES study “Access to justice for indigenous peoples from a human rights-based approach: Perspectives from indigenous law and from the official justice system”, particularly to representatives of the judiciary. 3. Capacity-building activities 23. OHCHR in Geneva has stepped up its efforts to encourage the use of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the work of national human rights institutions. In December 2009, it organized an expert meeting in Bangkok, bringing together selected national human rights institutions, indigenous representatives and human rights bodies resulting in concrete proposals that are now being followed up. 24. During the period under review, the Office continued to implement its indigenous fellowship programme (which has four linguistic components) and provided in-depth training sessions on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to 23 indigenous 6

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