Highlights of results This section highlights the results to which the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) made a meaningful contribution in 2017. The results are organized according to the Office’s thematic priorities set out in the OHCHR Management Plan 2014-2017 (OMP). The Office’s work is grounded in its theory of change and the thematic expected accomplishments (see Annex I) that define the intermediate results to which the Office contributes in the pursuit of its long-term goal – all human rights for all. The Office’s four-year planning cycle ended in 2017 and Annex II provides an overview of the extent to which – over those four years – the expected accomplishments and targets set have been achieved, as well as some lessons learned over the cycle. For a general overview of UN Human Rights’ role in the developments listed below, please refer to the end of this chapter. For a more detailed description of its specific role in these results, please refer to the chapters on field presences and headquarter divisions that can be found on the USB key that is annexed to this report or on the Office’s website. Strengthening international human rights mechanisms A total of 72 per cent of national expected accomplishments were fully or partially achieved over the last four years, with varying levels of progress achieved in those that are remaining. Ratification (ICCPR); the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); the Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW); the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD); and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2). In the Americas, Panama ratified OP-CRC-AC, while in the Asia Pacific region, Fiji ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Myanmar ratified ICESCR. In Europe, the Government of the Republic of Moldova launched internal procedures for ratifying the Optional Protocol to CRPD. In 2017, a total of 42 new ratifications of or accessions to the international human rights treaties were deposited with the Secretary-General. The examples listed below illustrate this achievement. Engagement of Member States with international human rights mechanisms In the Africa region, Cape Verde ratified the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) as well as the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR); the Central African Republic ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OP-CRC-AC); Comoros acceded to CAT; Malawi and Seychelles acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED); and Sao Tomé and Principe ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Member States engaged with international human rights mechanisms and undertook efforts to comply with their findings and recommendations. In relation to the Human Rights Council (HRC), during 2017, Member States were actively involved in three regular sessions, one special session and more than 140 meetings to all of which UN Human Rights provided support services. Furthermore, as a result of assistance received from the Voluntary Technical Assistance Trust Fund to Support the Participation of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the work of the Human Rights Council, 27 delegates from 26 LDCs and SIDS (13 from Africa, four from the 8 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017