Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions POSSIBLE ACTIONS 9. Mainstream SOGISC issues in all human rights education and awareness raising activities conducted by the NHRI, especially for young people.27 10. Promote greater understanding of human rights, especially in relation to SOGISC, among LGBTI people, their families and the wider community.28 11. Provide human rights education and information about remedies for human rights violations to LGBTI people, including the role of NHRIs and complaint mechanisms, if possible in partnerships with LGB, T and I and other civil society organisations.29 12. Build the capacity of law enforcement officers, government service providers, members of the judiciary and religious leaders to interact appropriately with LGBTI people, in conjunction with LGBTI people and organisations.30 13. Develop training manuals and conduct awareness raising on issues concerning SOGISC for schools and universities, in consultation with LGBTI people and organisations.31 14. Engage with and educate the media on SOGISC issues and work with them to raise awareness about the role of NHRIs and the availability of complaint mechanisms.32 15. Reach out to parental and family associations to encourage understanding of SOGISC issues and build support systems that reach out effectively to parents and families.33 16. Provide a platform for persons of diverse SO, GI or SC to engage in dialogue with all relevant groups, including parliamentarians, the judiciary, the security/law enforcement sector, medical practitioners and community and religious leaders.34 17. Promote dialogue among community and religious leaders on the relationship between faith, religion, custom and tradition and SOGISC.35 4.3. MONITORING There are two distinct types of human rights monitoring. These involve: • assessing the human rights situation in your country, either overall or in relation to a specific treaty and the human rights issues it covers • on-site inspection of places where there is a higher risk of human rights violations, such as prisons and other places where people are detained or forced to reside. Both types of monitoring are opportunities to highlight how LGB, T, or I people are vulnerable to human rights violations. For example, NHRIs can monitor the situation of transgender women in male prisons, who are at high risk of sexual and physical violence.36 Read more in Chapter 5 of the APF/UNDP SOGISC manual about how UN treaty bodies have focused on human rights issues related to SO, GI or SC. Pages 76 and 77 in Chapter 4 include more details about the growing number of recommendations related to human rights violations against intersex people. 16