A/HRC/4/102 page 18 Monitoring of police 73. In Afghanistan, the Human Rights Unit, together with the Kunar Police, is implementing from November 2006 to February 2007 a police monitoring project aimed at monitoring compliance by the district police with human rights standards and the human rights environment in 11 Kunar districts.21 74. In Nepal, OHCHR regularly monitors the Nepal Police and the Armed Police focusing on the legality of arrest and detention; the treatment of detainees and prisoners; disappearances; criminal investigations into allegations of serious criminal conduct committed by the police forces; internal investigations into allegations of human rights violations by the police forces; and the conduct of police forces during demonstrations, particularly with respect to the issue of excessive use of force. Monitoring activity included covering over 140 demonstrations in 2006 with follow-up interventions in respect of arrests and treatment of detainees. The Nepal office also published an extensive report in September 2006 entitled Findings of OHCHR Nepal’s Monitoring and Investigations: The April Protests: Democratic Rights and the Excessive Use of Force.22 Since April 2006, the Nepal office has focused its monitoring on the registration of complaints alleging serious criminal conduct by the police forces and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M), and the investigation of those complaints.23 IV. EXAMPLES OF PRACTICAL MEASURES TO ASSIST COUNTRIES IN STRENGTHENING THEIR SYSTEMS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE 75. In Afghanistan, training provided to prison officials on human rights standards has normally referred to the treatment of particular groups, including juvenile offenders. Monitoring visits, using a generic monitoring checklist, are regularly conducted of juvenile detention facilities and other detention centres where juveniles might be placed with other detainees. Examples of successful interventions arising from these monitoring visits include the following: in January 2006, the intervention of the Afghan Human Rights Commission and UNAMA resulted in five juveniles being transferred from the adult prison in Herat to a juvenile facility; in March 2006, a juvenile who was being detained in the prison in Chegcharan, Ghor, was released after UNAMA’s intervention; in January 2007, together with the Afghan human rights commission, UNAMA intervened in the cases of four (alleged) juvenile offenders detained in a provincial prison. UNAMA also played a coordinating and advocacy role in relation to the construction of a new Juvenile Correction Centre in Herat. 76. In the first of a series of joint activities aimed at reform of the juvenile justice system in Afghanistan, after the enactment of the new Juvenile Code in 2005 incorporating standards provided for in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UNODC and UNICEF, together with the Ministry of Justice organized a training on the new code in Kabul in July 2005. 21 Written contribution of UNAMA. 22 Available online at http://nepal.ohchr.org/reports.htm. 23 Written contribution of the OHCHR office in Nepal.