UN HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE FIELD It also documented and expressed concern over changes that had taken place within the police force since the arrival of new authorities in the Ministry of Interior. Upon request, OHCHR supported the national police in reviewing protocols on public demonstrations, road blockages and evictions. Jointly with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Presidential Commission for Coordinating Executive Policy in the Field of Human Rights, OHCHR held four workshops for police officers to improve these protocols and develop a single protocol on the use of force. As a result, police has played an important role in preventing forced evictions affecting indigenous communities. Furthermore, OHCHR provided technical assistance to authorities and civil society in relation to documentation and investigation of complaints about extortion, the confiscation of documents, arbitrary detentions affecting migrants and collaborated with local and national authorities towards the adoption of protection mechanisms as the establishment of shelters during their transit. OHCHR closely monitored the humanitarian crisis caused by the eruption of the Fuego Volcano and carried out nearly 20 missions to the affected area. It documented various human rights concerns, coordinated closely with UN agencies and provided technical assistance to State authorities and has supported displaced communities in the search for legal assistance to access adequate housing. 236 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2018 Spotlights: UN HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE FIELD Participation (P) P6 – Rights-holders, especially women, youth, indigenous peoples and other underrepresented groups, defend human rights and make their voices heard. OHCHR contributed to ensuring the meaningful participation of rights-holders, especially women, youth, indigenous peoples and others from underrepresented groups, in various public processes by strengthening their capacity, providing technical assistance and ensuring dialogue and coordination. OHCHR took steps to strengthen indigenous peoples’ capacities as rights-holders to take part in the formulation of proposals for participation that are more inclusive and respectful of their rights. The Office worked with the Government to improve these conditions, including through the provision of technical assistance. OHCHR was an observer in three working groups that were created by the Government, with the participation of rights-holders, in order to find alternative solutions to conflicts that arise in relation to land. These working groups have now dealt with 97 land conflicts affecting various regions. Moreover, OHCHR organized four high level meetings between the judiciary and indigenous authorities to ensure dialogue and coordination across both justice systems. These meetings generated relevant inputs for the Judicial Organism, which enabled it to establish action points focused on improving the access of indigenous peoples to justice, in particular women, as well as the identification of areas where more coordination is needed. Disabilities Women The Office also provided technical assistance to the National Weavers Movement, a group of indigenous women from various regions in the country that promoted legal reforms including a specific law – ordered by the Constitutional Court – for the protection of indigenous textiles. These actions are part of the Office´s support for strategic litigation initiated through the Maya Programme and continued with the Profem project to ensure protection by the State of the collective intellectual property and ancestral knowledge related to Maya textile art. OHCHR also worked with the Political Association of Maya Women (Moloj) to strengthen their capacity to formulate human rights indicators that are relevant for indigenous women within the framework of the recommendations made to the State in its third cycle of the UPR (2017). OHCHR followed up on around 225 emergency cases of protection of human rights defenders. In these cases, the Office verified and cross-checked information with victims and their families as well as with State institutions (National Civil Police, NHRI, Office of the Attorney General), to support the provision of a protection response and assessment from a human rights perspective. In addition, OHCHR continued to follow up on around 75 cases of criminalization of human rights defenders. It met on a regular basis with legal teams defending human rights defenders from spurious charges, participated in judiciary hearings of those cases and carried out around 20 visits to detention centres where human rights defenders were held on criminal charges. Non-Discrimination (ND) ND1 – National laws, policies and practices take a human rights-based approach, and in particular respect the rights of indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, women, LGBTI persons, and other groups that experience discrimination. Through technical assistance and advocacy work, OHCHR contributed to increasing the capacity of key State institutions on international human rights standards related to indigenous peoples’ collective rights and the rights of persons with disabilities, women and LGBTI persons, as well as those of groups facing discrimination. OHCHR continued to promote the implementation of the access policy for indigenous peoples in the Office of the Attorney General. OHCHR provided technical assistance and advice to the Secretariat of Indigenous Peoples of the judicial branch and promoted training processes on indigenous peoples’ rights for staff of government institutions that have mandates concerning human rights and the justice system. In this context, OHCHR provided training to 56 judges on the rights of indigenous peoples under the auspices of the School of Judicial Studies. OHCHR monitored threats and attacks against LGBTI human rights defenders, provided technical assistance to the State regarding Bill 5272 (containing discriminatory provisions against LGBTI persons) and Bill 5395 (promoting the rights of trans persons). The Office also implemented the Free & Equal campaign in Guatemala, with the aim of making LGBTI persons visible as subjects of rights while also raising the awareness of Guatemalan society as a whole in order to reduce discrimination suffered by LGBTI persons in the country. From April to July 2018 the campaign reached 1,5 million people. Regarding the rights of persons with disabilities, OHCHR provided technical assistance to the State on a draft law on mental health. The Office prepared an initial mapping of draft laws related to the rights of persons with disabilities. ND1 – Indigenous peoples, women, and other groups subject to discrimination make use of strategic litigation to demand their rights and hold to account individuals and institutions that violate human rights. Through methodological and substantive support, OHCHR contributed to increasing the knowledge of indigenous peoples, women and certain groups about relevant international human rights standards and the potential of strategic litigation. OHCHR continued following up on cases of the Maya Programme, in particular the implementation of judgments of the Constitutional Court regarding land, territories, bilingual intercultural education, intellectual property over textile art and violence and sexual slavery against Q’eqchi’ indigenous women of the Sepur Zarco community. In the latter, the court ruling established 16 transformative reparation measures, including measures to ensure justice for the enforced disappearance of members of the community, guarantees of non-repetition, and measures to fulfil economic, social and cultural rights of the victims and their communities. OHCHR is providing technical assistance for the implementation of the reparation plan. indigenous midwives; and girls victims of the 2017 fire in the State-run Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción orphanage for children victims of violence. OHCHR supported families of girls who died, as well as 15 survivors, by supporting government institutions and organizations that represent them in judicial proceedings, in order to guarantee their access to justice and reparation. Under the Development pillar, OHCHR worked to ensure that businesses and other economic actors were held to account for human rights abuses and also supported the Government to ensure that legislation and policy related to food, housing and land increasingly complied with international human rights norms and standards. Finally, OHCHR worked to increase the capacity of the UN Country Team to incorporate a human rights-based approach into the new United Nations Development Assistance Framework 2020-2024. Furthermore, the Office provided methodological and substantive support to the legal teams involved in judicial proceedings in three emblematic cases of discrimination against women in the framework of the Profem project, specifically indigenous women weavers; Shifts: Inequalities UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2018 237