The concrete response to this is to be found in the programme of technical cooperation in the field of human rights implemented by the Centre for Human Rights. The programme supports a wide range of projects aimed at, among other things, developing national plans of action for human rights, providing assistance in drafting constitutional provisions relating to human rights, reforming legislation, human rights aspects of elections, prison reform, developing and strengthening national institutions, strengthening the judiciary, training judges, prosecutors and lawyers in human rights, and training police and the armed forces. Technical cooperation projects also support regional human rights institutions such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies and the Arab Institute for Human Rights. Many of these activities are financed through the United Nations voluntary fund for technical cooperation in the field of human rights under the guidance of its board of trustees, composed of eminent international experts. The preventive capacities of this programme have grown in importance.
Assistance continues in Cambodia and in Rwanda and Burundi.