A/HRC/4/91 page 15 III. COOPERATION WITH HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES, SPECIAL MECHANISMS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS Treaty bodies 63. The Paris Principles highlight the importance for NHRIs to engage in the international human rights treaty body process. The NI Unit has therefore systematically engaged with treaty bodies and their members by providing expert analyses of NHRIs. The Unit has one staff member working on treaty body and NHRI issues and regularly preparing briefs for each treaty body on the NHRIs and related issues in the countries under examination. 64. Since 2003, the NI Unit and the Treaty Body Recommendations Unit of the Treaties and Council Branch have undertaken training workshops under an ongoing European Union-funded project called “Strengthening the implementation of human rights treaty recommendations through the enhancement of national protection mechanisms”. Representatives of the media, NGOs and the NHRIs of Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Croatia, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Kenya, Latvia, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo, Uganda and Zambia participated in the Geneva-based workshops, as well as in the treaty body sessions reviewing the reports of their respective countries. Plans of action were also developed for each country and are being implemented. 65. Within the same project, under the complementary phase, pre-sessional workshops took place in 2006 and more are planned for 2007 to prepare participants for the Geneva-based workshops. For those that participated in previous training sessions, follow-up workshops were conducted to assess the impact of the training. As follow-up activities have revealed, the workshops have led to the strengthening of national capacity to implement human rights treaty body recommendations, with NHRIs playing a leading role. 66. Also within the framework of the project, the NI Unit and the Treaties and Council Branch organized a judicial colloquium in Kenya from 27 February to 1 March 2006. The colloquium brought together members of NHRIs, the judiciary, parliamentarians, NGOs, Government and the media to discuss implementation strategies of treaty body recommendations at the national level. 67. Since 2000, the NI Unit has prepared and regularly updated a compilation of all treaty body concluding observations and recommendations relating to NHRIs. This compilation is posted on the NHRI website (www.nhri.net). The Unit also continues to systematically and promptly send concluding observations to the NHRIs of the countries concerned, following their adoption. Round table on the role of national human rights institutions in the treaty body process 68. A draft paper on NHRIs’ participation in the treaty body process was prepared for the fifth inter-committee meeting (19-21 June 2006), in which the Chairpersons and two additional members of each treaty body participate. This culminated in the holding of a round table on NHRIs and treaty bodies in Berlin on 23 and 24 November 2006. It brought together NHRIs,