A/HRC/31/3 Gender equality and women’s rights 4. 38. On 15 September 2015, the High Commissioner announced his pledge to be a “Geneva gender champion”4 and committed himself to meeting at least one women’s organization during each field visit, among other things. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, OHCHR led a media campaign featuring 12 video profiles of women human rights defenders and a social media component encouraging public solidarity with women human rights defenders. With United Nations partners, OHCHR published a booklet about United Nations support and assistance to counter gender-related killings and launched an information series on sexual and reproductive health and rights. 39. OHCHR sought to address wrongful stereotyping by the judiciary in cases of sexual and gender-based violence (in Guatemala and West Africa). In Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama and Peru, OHCHR promoted the use of the Latin American model protocol for the investigation of femicide among members of the judiciary. In Papua New Guinea, OHCHR trained women human rights defenders and developed a manual on addressing gender-based violence. 40. OHCHR contributed to building national capacities to address issues related to women’s rights and gender equality (violence against women, gender stereotyping, access to land and sexual and reproductive health), including for stakeholders from Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, the Gambia, Honduras, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the Syrian Arab Republic and Tunisia. OHCHR also assisted some States in developing or revising family laws and legislation on violence against women (in Belarus, the Gambia, Myanmar, Senegal, Tunisia and Yemen). 41. With national and international counterparts, OHCHR mentored women candidates and parliamentarians in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, the Niger and Senegal. 42. Capacity-development on gender integration reached some 350 United Nations staff and government and civil society representatives. 5. Discrimination on the basis of disability 43. OHCHR played a key role in mainstreaming the rights of persons with disabilities in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, including in the definition of indicators and in terms of data disaggregated by disability. 44. In Georgia, OHCHR provided advice on amendments to the legislation on the legal capacity of persons with psychological disabilities, which were adopted in the spring of 2015. In August 2015, the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of Paraguay adopted a national action plan on the rights of persons with disabilities, developed with OHCHR support. In January 2015, again with OHCHR assistance, the Parliament of Tunisia established a special commission for persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, following its ratification of a national charter on the rights of such persons. 6. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity 45. OHCHR supports efforts to counter homophobic and transphobic attitudes through its Free and Equal public education campaign, which continued through 2015 with the release of new videos, factsheets and other materials. OHCHR led campaign events in Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, Cabo Verde, China, El Salvador, Fiji, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, 4 For more information, see www.genevagenderchampions.com. 7