The Unit and the Council have exchanged information about various NHRIs within Europe.

The NI Unit has discussed with the Government of Turkey the establishment of a NHRI.

The NI Unit assisted NHRIs during their participation at the sixtieth and sixty first sessions of the Commission on Human Rights.

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Inter agency Coordination Unit

The Unit has one staff member working exclusively on treaty body and NHRI issues.

Since 2003 the NI Unit has maintained, with the support of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, a website on NHRIs (www.nhri.net).

OHCHR has undertaken to strengthen the role of NHRIs at both the global and country level through the work of the NI Unit, which has become an integral part of supporting the national human rights promotion and protection system.

Major shareholders such as institutional investors should not have privileged access to information that is unavailable to minority shareholders.

On 16 February 2005, the NI Unit participated in the meeting of the European Coordinating Group of National Institutions, hosted by the Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme in Paris, and met with the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie to strengthen cooperation between the NI Unit and the Agence.

The NI Unit is preparing a compilation of declarations adopted by NHRIs since 1993 and a stocktaking of action taken.

The NI Unit has established closer linkages with the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe as the focal point for the Council's work on NHRIs.

A parallel event on Minority Rights and NHRIs was organized by the NI and Minority Units, including minority fellows, during the sixteenth session of ICC.

The NI Unit continues to systematically engage with treaty bodies and their members by providing expert analysis of NHRIs and preparation of briefs for members.

In line with Commission resolution, 2004 76, the Unit compiled special procedures recommendations relating to NHRIs and is in the process of making them available to relevant NHRIs for follow up.

The Unit prepared a compilation of all concluding observations and recommendations relating to NHRIs as well as decisions under individual complaints procedures that have been made by the treaty bodies since 2000.

The Unit has twice provided comments on the draft legislation and drafted a NHRI project which is expected to be included in the UNMIS global human rights project.

On 25 and 26 November 2004, the NI Unit participated in the third Round Table of National Human Rights Institutions, hosted by the German Institute for Human Rights and the Council of Europe, in Berlin.

The international round table on NHRIs as promoters and protectors of good governance was organized by the NI Unit in cooperation with the Fiji Human Rights Commission in Suva, from 13 to 16 December 2004.

The NI Unit and the Danish Institute for Human Rights co organized the round table discussion NHRIs and the administration of justice in Copenhagen on 13 and 14 November 2003.

The NI Unit addressed the OHCHR Inter Parliamentary Union seminar Strengthening Parliament as a guardian of human rights the role of parliamentary human rights bodies , held in Geneva from 15 to 17 March 2004.

In follow up to the commitment made at the third intercommittee meeting of human rights treaty bodies to engage more with NHRIs and issue general recommendations on the work of NHRIs in relation to treaty bodies, the Unit, together with the Treaties and Commission Branch, arranged for the participation of NHRI representatives from Uganda, Mexico and Denmark to participate for the first time in the intercommittee meeting held in June 2005.

Widely held and controlled companies differ considerably in the governance problems their investors face. In widely held firms, the concern is about opportunism by managers, who exercise de facto control in controlled firms, the concern is about opportunism by the controlling shareholder at the expense of minority shareholders.

From 3 to 5 March 2004, the NI Unit supported a training initiative for NHRIs on the human rights of indigenous peoples organized by the Network, held in Mérida, Mexico.

The NI Unit was requested to organize a panel of NHRIs for the UNESCO World Forum on Human Rights, held in Nantes, France, from 16 to 19 May 2004.

The NI Unit provides financial and substantive support to the regional secretariats of NHRIs, in cooperation with the OHCHR geographic units and regional representatives, a partnership strategy vis à vis NHRIs which emphasizes the establishment and strengthening of regional networks.

In close cooperation with the OHCHR Anti Discrimination Unit, the NI Unit established a small grants scheme for NHRIs' activities in follow up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

These custodians, which in the British Virgin Islands will be banks, trust companies licensed in the Territory and institutions based in the jurisdiction, will hold information on the shares' beneficial ownership.

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The NI Unit of OHCHR, in consultation with the ICC, is working to strengthen the work of the Sub Committee.

The NI Unit provided support to the meeting of the Coordination Committee of African Human Rights Institutions (CCANI), held on 12 April 2005 in parallel to the ICC meeting.

The Unit continued to systematically and promptly send to the NHRIs of the countries concerned concluding observations and decisions under individual complaints procedures following their adoption.

The NI Unit addressed participants at the British Council seminar NHRIs effective or just existing? held in Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, from 26 to 30 October 2003.

The NI Unit is working with the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) to support the establishment of a national institution.

The NI Unit of OHCHR continues to act as the secretariat of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), providing it with relevant information, facilitating the holding of its meetings and assisting in its accreditation process.

National Institutions of Human Rights Protection Human Rights Commission and the Institution of Ombudsman

The NI Unit briefed the special procedures mandate holders during their annual meeting in June 2004, in order to support greater interaction between the special procedures mechanisms and NHRIs.

During the reporting period, the UNOTIL Human Rights Unit focused, in particular, on building the institutional capacity of the newly established Office of the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice.

Cooperation between human rights treaty bodies, special mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and national human rights institutions

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) works closely with its field counterpart in Afghanistan, the Human Rights Unit (HRU) of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and this report was prepared in close cooperation with the human rights officers from that unit.

Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

Human rights mechanisms

Moreover, the FIU, acting within its mandate, has drawn up a set of specific instructions for all institutions covered by Supreme Decree No. 24771.

All other legal entities engaged in the performance of activities that are dependent upon an authorization from the agencies that regulate the stock, exchange, financial, and insurance markets

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on our audit.