A/HRC/19/21 organized by the Regional Conference on Migration in Tegucigalpa. In June, the Office organized a round table on human rights and human smuggling in collaboration with the Global Alliance against Traffic in Women. Through the West Africa Regional Group on protection in mixed migration, OHCHR, with IOM and UNHCR, facilitated presentations and trainings on migration and human rights in this context. 73. My Office also continued to work on the human rights issue of trafficking in persons. As Chair of the Inter-agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons, OHCHR organized a side event during the seventeenth session of the Human Rights Council to highlight the role of the United Nations in protecting victims of trafficking. The Commentary on the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking was launched by OHCHR in the Republic of Moldova in November and in the United Arab Emirates in December. Capacity-building activities on the rightsbased approach to combatting trafficking were undertaken in Belarus and the United Arab Emirates for law enforcement officials from CIS countries and the Middle East and North Africa region respectively. OHCHR participated in the first Gulf Forum for Combatting Human Trafficking, held in the United Arab Emirates, where the human rights-based approach was presented and adopted by the Forum as the methodology to address trafficking in persons. A regional consultative meeting on combating human trafficking was organized in Qatar in cooperation between OHCHR and the Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking, which aimed to further the implementation of the Arab Initiative to build national capacities to combat human trafficking. E. Combating impunity and strengthening accountability, the rule of law and democratic society 74. In addition to the above-mentioned international commissions of inquiry and factfinding missions mandated by the Human Rights Council-, OHCHR provided a broad range of countries with technical advice on the establishment of national commissions of inquiry. As part of its work on the protection of victims and witnesses, OHCHR supported national authorities in Kosovo,2 Nepal and Uganda in developing victim and witness protection programmes. OHCHR also supported the organization of a judicial colloquium on victim and witness protection and the administration of justice in Uganda, and organized a seminar on the draft law on witness and victim protection in Argentina. An expert meeting on gender aspects of victim and witness protection programmes was held in Geneva. 75. OHCHR continued its sustained engagement in transitional justice processes and mechanisms at the national level. This included working towards the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms in Burundi; conducting an induction workshop for the dialogue, truth and reconciliation commission in Côte d’Ivoire; supporting the Togo truth, justice and reconciliation commission; assisting national authorities and civil society on transitional justice initiatives in Nepal; supporting efforts to establish a reparations programme in Timor-Leste; providing advice on the Law on Victims and Restitution of Land in Colombia; and assisting in the vetting of the national police in Haiti. OHCHR also participated in workshops on transitional justice in the Middle East and North Africa region, and provided advice on related issues in Tunisia and Libya. OHCHR also organized an expert workshop entitled “A human rights-compliant framework for vetting of members of the security and justice sectors”. My Office and the Economic Community of West African States also organized a Conference on Impunity, Justice and Human Rights 2 Reference to Kosovo should be understood in full compliance with Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo. 13