MANAGEMENT Partnerships UN Human Rights has broadened and diversified its institutional partners and maximized the mutually reinforcing human rights benefits of exchange of expertise, reach and resources. • OHCHR launched an internal taskforce to develop a road map for partnerships, which will include the identification of key partners and enablers, as well as a vision and toolkit for the establishment of partnerships in the future. • OHCHR established a new partnership with HURIDOCS to automatize the Universal Human Rights Index (UHRI), which will include tagging the recommendations issued by the international human rights mechanisms against SDGs and targets through a pioneering use of artificial intelligence. UN Human Rights also supported the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in developing the European Union Fundamental Rights Information System by drawing on data from the treaty body jurisprudence database. • The collaboration with the World Bank progressed well in 2019. Building on the success of the High Commissioner’s engagement at the 2018 World Bank Spring Meetings, the High Commissioner participated in a prominent event on fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) at the 2019 Spring Meetings that were held in April, in Washington D.C., with CEO Kristalina Georgieva. UN Human Rights supported the High Commissioner’s participation in the FCV event and engaged with the World Bank’s consultation process as it develops its first draft Strategy for FCV. As of the end of the year, this process was ongoing. • In 2019, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights initiated a 78 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 multi-year cooperation with UNESCO to develop a manual and toolkit that promotes a human rights-based approach to cultural diversity and the importance of safeguarding cultural heritage in humanitarian action and during security, peacebuilding and peacekeeping operations. • The Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) engaged for the first time in a partnership with a local NGO to prepare video lectures on international standards for protecting HRDs. As part of a broader online course for HRDs, the lectures aimed to deliver information to HRDs about their protection according to international law, including who can be considered an HRD, how the HRMMU operates in Ukraine, key challenges to civic space in Ukraine and what international mechanisms are available for the protection of HRDs. The lectures were posted online and widely shared by local civil society activists.

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