High Commissioner for Human Rights should monitor the situation in Guinea … by an appropriately significant presence, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, to serve as a deterrent to potential violators of international law”,98 OHCHR opened an office in Conakry in May 2010. The country office has based its priorities on the recommendations in the report to focus on security sector reform, combating impunity through strengthening of the judicial sector and providing technical support on transitional justice. International bodies have continued to keep some situations that were the subject of international investigations on their agenda, with reports being presented by the SecretaryGeneral and the High Commissioner for Human Rights. For example, the SecretaryGeneral submitted a report99 to the General Assembly on follow-up to Gaza (2009) and the High Commissioner submitted a report to the Human Rights Council on Libya.100 At the national level, implementation has been less consistent. An example of highly successful follow-up is Timor-Leste (2006). The report recommended that cases related to the events it had examined should be investigated by an international prosecutor and tried before a mixed panel of local and international judges. With the support of the United Nations an international prosecutor was appointed in the Office of the Prosecutor General to head the Special Crimes Investigations Team, which had completed 335 investigations by December 2012, and several cases were tried before a hybrid court. The report on Guinea (2009) contained a number of recommendations: that there be institutional reform of the military and judicial systems; for the Guinean authorities to take truth initiatives (including information on the disappeared), launch prosecutions and provide compensation to victims. The Government of Guinea set up the National Reconciliation Commission in 2011 and, together with the Peacebuilding Commission, agreed on a joint strategy to promote national reconciliation.101 In 2010, the Government appointed three investigating judges to look into the cases investigated by the Commission of Inquiry on Guinea (2009) (following also a National Commission). The panel of judges has charged several senior officials, including senior military officers, with various crimes arising from the events in 2009. In 2011, a joint communiqué was issued by the Government of Guinea and the United Nations on the fight against impunity for sexual violence, in which the Government made a commitment to implement the recommendations of the Commission and initiate a dialogue with the victims of sexual violence. 98 S/2009/693, para. 276 (a)(ii). 99 See, for example, “Second follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict” (A/64/890). 100 See, for example, “Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on assistance for Libya in the field of human rights” (A/HRC/22/40). 101 See “Statement of mutual commitments on peacebuilding in Guinea between the Government of Guinea and the Peacebuilding Commission” (PBC/5/GUI/2). GUIDANCE AND PRACTICE 103

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