HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS its support to field operations, including in humanitarian preparedness and response, by deploying two emergency response teams to the Regional Offices for Southern Africa and South-East Asia. Human Rights up Front Initiative In the context of the Human Rights up Front (HRUF) Initiative, UN Human Rights managed to integrate HRUF requirements into UN action at the country and headquarters levels, including early warning analyses when engaging with other UN entities on human rights issues. The inter-agency report on establishing a common UN information management system on violations, led by the Office, served as a reference point to guide relevant UN colleagues on issues related to human rights and information management. Work was carried out to develop an analytical framework to integrate economic, social and cultural rights into early warning analysis, which was tested at the field level in Fiji. Also in the field, in Colombia, UN Human Rights ensured that the Special Political Mission implemented the obligatory online course on human rights for all of its incoming members and delivered orientation sessions on the human rights context in Colombia and the human rights responsibilities of UN personnel, including the HRUF Initiative. In Somalia, a HRUF stocktaking exercise was conducted to examine the drivers, root causes, multipliers and triggers of the conflict in Galmudug region. The outcome report highlighted that human rights violations were at the heart of the conflict and recommended robust early warning, prevention and response measures to these violations. Conflict prevention In 2016 and 2017, the UN placed greater emphasis on conflict prevention. In 2016, UN Human Rights actively participated in the working group on conflict prevention and contributed to the creation of a UN compendium of prevention cases. In 2017, the Office actively participated in the development of activities linked to the June 13th Appeal, by the Government of Switzerland, to situate human rights at the heart of conflict prevention. Among other measures, the Appeal called for enhanced cooperation between the Human Rights Council and the Security Council in relation to decisions relevant to conflict prevention and to improve the Security Council’s use of available information to inform its decisions, including briefings from UN Human Rights and reports of the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms. 52 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2017 The role of UN Human Rights The contribution of UN Human Rights to the results outlined above was achieved through a wide variety of means, including through advocacy with government partners and civil society, the provision of technical cooperation and undertaking monitoring and reporting activities. More specifically, the Office provided technical and secretariat support to the international human rights mechanisms; engaged with and supported Member States in their efforts to comply with international human rights norms and standards; provided advisory services; and conducted research on thematic issues of concern. Moreover, it provided technical assistance to civil society actors, including groups in vulnerable situations, to enhance their capacities to claim and defend their rights and support their increased engagement in public life. Much of the work highlighted above was also achieved through trainings and workshops on various topics, including on human rights monitoring and documentation, reporting to the human rights treaty bodies and the UPR and human rights standards for judges, prosecutors and police. UN Human Rights promoted human rights in intergovernmental and inter-agency deliberations and processes, such as the twenty-third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as in meetings such as the World Economic Forum, in Davos, and the Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights. In particular, the work of UN Human Rights consists of the following areas of expertise: Supporting standard-setting UN Human Rights provides the various international human rights mechanisms with secretariat and technical assistance as they undertake their standard-setting functions. The Office contributes to the normative work of the Human Rights Council, its Advisory Committee and the special procedures. UN Human Rights also supports the progressive development of international law by carrying out legal research and providing secretariat assistance to the human rights treaty bodies for the preparation of general comments/general observations and jurisprudence related to individual complaints. In addition, through the Treaty Body Capacity-Building Programme, established by General