Guided by successive General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights resolutions, and by the nature of State requests themselves, the Technical Cooperation Programme gradually developed capacities for assistance in a range of areas, which now provide a useful framework for national efforts directed at strengthening human rights and the rule of law. Thus the Centre for Human Rights now adopts a comprehensive approach to human rights institution building, which sees as fundamental, amongst others,  the following constituent elements for national efforts to secure the protection of human rights under the rule of law: amonst others, the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers: laws on the judiciary, on legal practice and on prosecution which reflect the standards embodied in, amongst others, the
Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.