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country levels aimed at implementing and enhancing international cooperation in the field
of human rights.
The OHCHR regional offices in South East Asia and in the Pacific participated in
the Asia-Pacific Climate Week in Bangkok. In collaboration with the United Nations
Environment Programme, they organized a side event entitled “Needs and gaps for
integrating human rights in climate action: challenges and good practices”, with multistakeholder participation including representatives of Fiji and the Marshall Islands, and
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiators. The Office
continued to lead United Nations efforts to strengthen cooperation with the
Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights of the Association of South-East Asian
Nations, including by organizing a second interface meeting on potential areas of
collaboration and supporting its events, notably a consultation on realizing the right to
development. OHCHR engaged in developing common country analyses and United
Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework processes in Bangladesh, China,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives and Timor-Leste; developed materials on human rights, the
2030 Agenda and voluntary national reviews; and led a discussion on the right to public
participation and the 2030 Agenda at the International Forum on Public Participation and
Stakeholder Engagement for the Sustainable Development Goals, held in Bangkok in 2019.
At the second senior management meeting between OHCHR and the European
Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, participants took stock of multiple strands of
cooperation and considered potential priorities and modalities to further increase
cooperation.
Collaborating with members of the Economic Community of Central African States,
Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Sao Tome and Principe,
OHCHR strengthened the capacity of national mechanisms for human rights reporting,
including through training of trainers in Burundi and Cameroon; supported reporting on the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in
Cameroon and on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Sao Tome and Principe;
and prepared a compendium of human rights recommendations in Gabon, which resulted in
a plan of action.
In Cameroon, OHCHR held a capacity-building workshop on human rights, conflict
prevention and reconciliation, which resulted in a road map for future engagement.
Partnering with the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms, it organized a
workshop on monitoring and reporting on economic, social and cultural rights for multiple
stakeholders, including the National Institute of Statistics. Stakeholders defined indicators
and established a platform to advance them.
OHCHR trained civil society organizations in Gabon on strategies to mobilize rights
holders and advocate for the participation of marginalized groups in public life. In Burundi,
training on human rights protection in the context of elections was organized for civil
society organizations, journalists and young people. A network of human rights observers
was established to monitor the 2020 elections. In Burundi and Cameroon, the Office
developed partnerships with civil society for the prevention, monitoring and reporting of
human rights violations, and advocacy in that regard.
With support from OHCHR, Eswatini enhanced its engagement with the treaty
bodies, culminating in the establishment of its national mechanism on reporting and followup in June 2019. In Mauritius, the national mechanism on reporting and follow-up was
established, in accordance with the National Human Rights Action Plan 2012–2021, with
technical support from the OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa and the treaty
body capacity-building programme. The Office also supported Mauritius in its reporting to
the human rights treaty bodies and in the preparation of its national report for the universal
periodic review.
Together with the Uganda Human Rights Commission, the OHCHR Uganda country
office reissued a booklet comprising the recommendations made at the country’s universal
periodic review in 2016, highlighting their linkages with the Sustainable Development
Goals. Also in cooperation with the Uganda Human Rights Commission, the Office
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