A/HRC/19/27 each country to enhance the protection of the rights of Afro-descendants, to mark the International Year for People of African Descent and to agree on a set of priority actions. 27. In an effort to implement the recommendation of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent1 to provide training for specific professional groups such as police officers, lawyers, judges and teachers to address stereotypes and prejudice directed at Afro-Ecuadorians, the Human Rights Adviser in Ecuador elaborated several training modules on the rights of Afro-Ecuadorians addressed to police, armed forces, national human rights institutions and the judicial sector. The modules will be included in the formal training curricula of these four State institutions. Moreover, the Human Rights Adviser is providing technical assistance and support to the national human rights institution, as well as to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights regarding specific publications on human rights and Afro-Ecuadorians. 28. The OHCHR office in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is following up on the situation of Bedouin refugees in the West Bank under the Israeli occupation. The Office is addressing the concerns that their livelihood and food security have been negatively affected by the expansion of Israeli settlements and “closed” areas (such as military zones and natural reserves) and that the Bedouin community has been gradually and systematically dispossessed of its land and faces constant attempts to displace it from their homes. 29. On 7 June 2011, the High Commissioner presented her follow-up report on the situation of human rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, as requested by the Human Rights Council in its resolution S-15/1. In her report, the High Commissioner described how 50,000 Libyan civilians had fled the country’s Western mountains region and crossed into southern Tunisia. Most of the refugees were reportedly ethnic Berbers (Amazhir) fleeing fighting and indiscriminate attacks. 30. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution S-16/1, , requested OHCHR to deploy a mission to the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law and to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated, with a view to avoiding impunity and ensuring full accountability. The High Commissioner presented her report to the Council at its eighteenth session, when she described how economic grievances were particularly strong in traditionally poor areas, including the north-eastern and border areas, such as Dar’a. They also reinforced longstanding issues of discrimination and neglect suffered by specific ethnic and religious groups, in particular the Kurds, who inhabit the North-East and who had been deprived of their basic civil, economic and social rights. G. International Year for People of African Descent 31. In its resolution 64/169, the General Assembly proclaimed 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. In many countries, Afro- descendants constitute numerical minorities whose generally non-dominant positions in their societies underline the need for the adoption and implementation of measures to allow them to exercise their rights to the fullest. During 2011, OHCHR implemented a framework for action to combat discrimination against people of African descent as an overarching policy document that guided its engagement with the fight against discrimination directed at people of African descent. Some of the activities that OHCHR carried out in the context of the Year include: 1 8 See A/HRC/14/18, para. 130.