A/HRC/7/38 page 10 provided assistance to a civil society initiative aimed at documenting allegations of human rights violations committed in January 2007 to repress peaceful protests. Other rapid response activities included support for a forensic investigation in Afghanistan, assistance to the United Nations country team in Somalia, and surge capacity to support OHCHR offices to better respond to critical situations, in the context of the violence in the Terai region, in Nepal, in January 2007; and of the deteriorating situation in the Occupied Palestinian territories. In October 2007, the rapid response capacity also allowed OHCHR to monitor human rights in the context of parliamentary elections in Togo. 38. As in 2006, the Peace Missions Support and Rapid Response Unit also enabled OHCHR to support the prompt implementation of Council resolutions and decisions. Thus, it provided secretarial support to the high-level fact-finding mission to Beit Hanoun, which was reactivated in 2007,8 to the high-level mission/group of experts mandated by the Council to assess the situation of human rights in Darfur,9 and assisted the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar following a special session of the Council in October 2007. The Council had requested the Special Rapporteur to assess the human rights situation in Myanmar in relation to the crackdown on the protests of August and September 2007.10 39. In 2007, my Office advised the following Member States on the establishment and responsibilities of national human rights institutions: Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cambodia, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Lesotho, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Uganda and Timor-Leste. In its work on and with national human rights institutions, OHCHR frequently cooperated with regional networks of national institutions and with United Nations partners, including the United Nations Development Programme and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. 40. Furthermore, my Office provided secretarial support to the meetings of the Accreditation Subcommittee of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, held in April and October 2007. OHCHR also 8 The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Israeli incursions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on 15 November 2006 (S-3/1) at a special session. While the secretariat of the high-level fact-finding mission has been activated three times upon the request of the Council - most recently in December 2007 - the necessary travel clearances have not been granted by the Israeli authorities. 9 The Council adopted a decision to dispatch a high-level mission to assess the human rights situation in Darfur on 13 December 2006 (S-4/101) as a result of a special session on Darfur. Its mandate was discontinued at the sixth regular session of the Council, in December 2007. 10 The Council adopted a resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on 2 October 2007 at a special session (S-5/1), which led to the first country visit by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar since 2003. The Special Rapporteur submitted his report to the Council at its sixth session, in December 2007.