A/HRC/41/CRP.2 Ukrainian language” and “[R]efrain from maintaining or imposing limitations on the ability of the Crimean Tatar community to conserve its representative institutions, including the Mejlis.”114 UNESCO Guidelines on Language and Education recommend that instruction in the mother tongue is “extended as late a stage in education as possible”. 115 104. According to Russian Federation statistics, in the 2018/2019 academic year, one Ukrainian school and eight Ukrainian classes in five Russian schools in Crimea continued to deliver instruction in Ukrainian, attended by 249 children (0.2 % of all Crimean students enrolled in schools).116 The number of children educated in Ukrainian has dropped steadily since the beginning of the occupation.117 105. Russian Federation statistics indicate that in the current academic year, there are 6,100 students educated in Crimean Tatar who attend 15 Crimean Tatar schools and 126 Crimean Tatar classes in 27 Russian schools. This reported number has remained stable over the years since the beginning of the occupation.118 However, OHCHR has documented cases of discrepancies between the formal language status of the school and the de facto use of Crimean Tatar in the curriculum.119 In addition, in several documented cases, school administrations rejected parents’ requests to organise a Crimean Tatar class or increase the hours the Crimean Tatar language was taught.120 106. OHCHR notes the lack of progress in removing the limitations on the operations of the Mejlis, a key self-governing institution of the Crimean Tatar people.121 Since the 26 April 2016 decision of the Supreme Court of Crimea that declared the Mejlis an extremist organisation, the institution has remained effectively banned. VIII. Technical cooperation and capacity-building 107. OHCHR regularly engages in technical cooperation and capacity-building activities to assist the Government of Ukraine, and other stakeholders that have a role to play in the promotion and protection of human rights in Ukraine. 108. During the reporting period, OHCHR provided training to a variety of actors, including Government officials, monitors from the national prevention mechanism (NPM), military officers, lawyers, representatives of international organisations and civil society. This included sessions on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, prevention of torture and ill-treatment in the places of deprivation of liberty and international standards for the treatment of prisoners, and documentation of torture. 109. During this reporting period, OHCHR also provided analytical papers to a variety of stakeholders on human rights issues such as the practice of automatic pre-trial detention of individuals charged with conflict-related infractions, and detention conditions. This aimed at ensuring that legislation and practice of actors was in conformity with international human rights standards. 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People is a representative body of the Crimean Tatars. UNESCO, Guidelines on Language and Education, Principle I, available at https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000129728. Previously reported divergences in the official figures, as well as information received by OHCHR from individual interlocutors, indicate that the formal Ukrainian status of the school or class does not reflect the actual use of Ukrainian in the classroom. In the 2013/2014 academic year, 12,694 children were receiving education in Ukrainian. For figures per each academic year between 2014 and 2018, see OHCHR report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 16 November 2017 to 15 February 2018, paras. 126-128. There were 5,551 Crimean Tatars educated in their native language in 2013/2014. OHCHR report on the situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, 13 September 2017 to 30 June 2018, para. 70. Recent examples include schools in village of Orlivka in Sevastopol and Bilohirsk district of Crimea. OHCHR report on the situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine, 27 September 2017, paras. 187-193. 27