A/HRC/31/80 residence permits in the country. Through its human rights advisers, OHCHR has assisted victims and United Nations partners to clarify international law requirements. E. 1. Compliance and engagement by States with United Nations human rights mechanisms and bodies Timor-Leste: strengthening State capacity to report on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 63. At the request of the Government of Timor-Leste, the human rights advisers unit of OHCHR provided its assistance in preparing the first State party report under the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Between March and October 2015, the unit, in collaboration with IOM, conducted three training sessions for 40 officials (including 10 women) on the Convention, the reporting process and its outcome, facilitated the translation of the list of issues and the concluding observations into Tetum (one of the official languages of TimorLeste), and co-facilitated with the Government two consultations that gathered input for the report from State officials, civil society entities, the private sector and embassies. At the Government’s request, the unit also commented on the draft State report. It disseminated the concluding observations to government officials, the national human rights institution, civil society entities, the United Nations and development partners, as well as to members of a government-led technical working group that was preparing a national plan of action on labour migration, with extensive support from IOM. 64. The draft plan of action includes a number of recommendations made by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in September 2015 (see CMW/C/TLS/CO/1). In the recommendations, the Committee called upon the Government to reform laws that restrict workers’ rights, to raise public awareness of the benefits of migration, to promote non-discrimination, to improve monitoring of labour conditions and to strengthen accountability for abuses of migrant workers. OHCHR provided funding to allow some of these activities to be undertaken. 2. Belarus: protecting the human rights of victims of trafficking 65. After the universal periodic review of Belarus and in response to the recommendation that to the State develop and implement, together with OHCHR, training courses on protecting the human rights of victims of human trafficking for representatives of law enforcement bodies, including those studying at the International Centre on Migration and Anti-Trafficking in Minsk, OHCHR is currently implementing a technical cooperation project in close consultation with UNDP in Belarus. During the first phase, concluded in December 2013, five training courses were organized for law enforcement officials. They included a workshop for member States of the Group of Friends United against Human Trafficking, and an international workshop on the theme “Cross-border cooperation: exchange of experiences and best practices for combating international trafficking”. Five training courses for law enforcement officials have been organized during the ongoing second phase, which started in 2014. The courses, attended mainly by participants from Belarus but also from Estonia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, addressed the challenges of trafficking in persons, and identified good practices when combating trafficking. 16

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