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Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, OHCHR provided technical
advice to national authorities for the mainstreaming of human rights into strategic planning
processes and plans, promoting the State’s right and duty to formulate appropriate national
development policies.20 This included advice on the strategic and operational plan Terra
Ranka, provided in the context of a broader process led by the United Nations Development
Programme to assist national authorities in aligning the plan with the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, the SIDS Accelerated
Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, and the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile
States. In August and September 2018, OHCHR held in Bissau, in partnership with the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers, two training workshops: on human rights indicators
and on a human rights-based approach to data. The workshops resulted in the improvement
of national authorities’ capacity for prioritizing the elimination of discrimination and the
reduction of inequalities, using disaggregated data to identify the most vulnerable with a
view to upholding the principle of leaving no one behind.
23.
In April 2019, the human rights component of the United Nations Mission for
Justice Support in Haiti supported the organization of 19 activities around the country,
through which 137 members of civil society organizations met with 110 local authorities to
follow up on the recommendations addressed to public authorities on human rights and
development, which had been issued in workshops held between 2009 and 2014. This
initiative created a space for dialogue and local partnerships towards better participation of
the population in local development. In particular, it gave civil society the opportunity to
address the challenges of public institutions characterized by scarce resources and a
national decentralization process.
24.
In Colombia, OHCHR advised women’s organizations in rural areas, contributing to
their ability to claim their human rights in peacebuilding and development processes. The
Office provided advice and promoted the rights of indigenous peoples and Colombians of
African descent regarding free, prior and informed consultations and consent, and other
forms of active, free and meaningful participation in development, health and land policies.
It also promoted the right to participation and access to justice in environmental matters and
the protection of other human rights that may be affected by environmental damage. The
Office provided training in the areas of the 2030 Agenda and the right to a healthy
environment. In addition, OHCHR-Colombia organized training activities on corruption
and human rights in partnership with civil society organizations and the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights. Experts and senior State officials, including the VicePresident of Colombia, attended the events. The activities highlighted the impact of
corruption on civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, as well as on the right to
development.
D.
Inter-agency coordination within the United Nations system and with
other international organizations
25.
OHCHR further disseminated its publications on the right to development among
different United Nations entities, including the United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the library of
the International Court of Justice. Following these activities, the right to development has
been duly considered in at least one separate opinion of a judge of the International Court
of Justice.21
26.
In May/June 2018, OHCHR held, in partnership with the Economic Commission for
Africa and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the conference entitled “Digital trade in Africa:
implications for inclusion and human rights” in Addis Ababa. In October 2018, the same
partnership organized side events to the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum. On the
basis of those events, the partners edited a publication on digital trade and human rights,
20
21
6
Ibid., art. 2 (3).
Advisory Opinion, Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
in 1965, 25 February 2019, separate opinion of Judge Cançado Trindade, paras. 77–86 and 264–269.
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