APF member Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch report findings (2024) While the draft law was not publicly available at time of writing, if enacted, such a law would make Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to legally recognize same-sex couples. Timor Leste Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch 2024 reports are silent on gender specific matters. APPENDIX 3: Documents reviewed for each NHRI Australia Human Rights Commission • Annual Report 2022 – 23, at: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commissiongeneral/publications/annual-report-2022-23-0 • Strategic Plan 2022 – 23, at: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commissiongeneral/publications/strategic-plan-2022-25 • Website: www.humanrights.gov.au National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain • Report of the National Institution for Human Rights of the Kingdom of Bahrain Submitted to the Fourth Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Before the United Nations Human Rights Council’, (2022) at: https://www.nihr.org.bh/EN/About/Reports/MediaHandler/GenericHandler/2022/Reports /08_ EN.pdf • Strategic and Action Plan 2022-2025’, at: https://www.nihr.org.bh/MediaHandler/GenericHandler/2022/Strategy%20and%20Actio n%2 0Plan%20NIHR%2022-EN.pdf • Personal communications (03.07.24), (held on GBA Team file.) • GANHRI, Sub-Committee on Accreditation Report, October 2023, at https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/nhri/ganhri/SCA-ReportSecond-Session-2023-EN-new.pdf • Website: www.nihr.org.bh National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh • 3rd Five-Year Strategic Plan 2022-2027, at: https://nhrc.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/nhrc.portal.gov.bd/page/535c363f_91a 8_40b6_b58a_714954c85b4e/2022-10-18-04-28ec218ec406fc02be70e9f982e4b2af89.pdf • Annual Report 2021, at: https://nhrc.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/nhrc.portal.gov.bd/page/cb8edec9_5ae e_4b0 4_bf2a_229d9cd226a0/2022-08-16-15-403a43b0df1aee26865a45f802b0eafb16.pdf • Human Rights Council (2018), Summary of stakeholders’ submissions on Bangladesh, at: http://daccessods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/WG.6/30/BGD/3&Lang=E • Website: www.nhrc.org.bd Gender Baseline Assessment of NHRIs in the Asia Pacific region – July 2024 48

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