in April 2019 in Dosso. This workshop helped to undertake some activities such as training in lobbying techniques for thirty-six (36) officially-appointed counsels (DCO) who are not lawyers, including (16) at Dosso and twenty (20) in Zinder, the training of journalists on the role of the media in the implementation of the legal and judicial assistance mechanism. This workshop offered the opportunity to train 30 men and women from the media and also raise awareness among women in six regions (Diffa, Maradi, Niamey, Tahoua, Tillabéry and Zinder). This sensitization which forms part of the activities commemorating 13 May helped to sensitize more than 1000 women on the legal and judicial assistance mechanism and on gender-based violence. Furthermore, in 2019, the Directorate General of the Agency received six (6) employees recruited by the line Ministry. 439. All these activities are aimed at revitalizing the ANAJJ by establishing a conducive environment for legal and judicial assistance not only by developing technical capacity of the various stakeholders and sensitizing the various target groups but by establishing a strategic alliance with the media to ensure improved visibility of the Agency and its branches. IX. RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATION AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION Strengthen the training of journalists and media professionals and embark on the signing of the inter-professional collective bargaining agreement of media workers 440. In spite of the training of journalists and media professionals, this bargaining agreement has still not been signed as a result of the mistrust of some leaders of certain media outfits due to the financial implications since it will make it mandatory to pay salaries to their employees beyond a certain threshold. 441. In order to train more journalists and media professionals, Law No. 2018-31 of 16 May 2018 initiated a reform of the media assistance fund since this fund will no longer be paid in cash but it will be used to carry out capacity building activities for these professionals under the oversight responsibility of the CSC, the regulatory body. Accelerate the process leading to the passage of a specific law on protection of human rights defenders by drawing inspiration from the Commission’s Guidelines on Freedom of Association. 442. As a response to this recommendation, please refer to the development on recommendation No. II above. X. FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT: REFUGEES, DISPLACED PERSONS AND MIGRANT WORKERS Adopt an implementing law on the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Displaced Persons in Africa (The Kampala Convention). Strengthen controls at the borders and reception and identification centres for migrants and asylum seekers as part of the management of mixed migratory flows. 443. In accordance with its international human rights protection obligations, Niger has passed Law No. 2018-74 of 10 December 2018 on protection and assistance of internally-displaced persons in line with the Kampala Convention adopted by the African Union in 2009 and ratified by the country in 2012. 444. Thus, Niger is the first country in Africa to have passed a national law on the protection and assistance to internally displaced persons in their own country (IDPs). The law aims at promoting and strengthening national and regional measures to prevent, mitigate and eliminate conditions that could lead to internal displacement. It also provides for the establishment of a legal framework relating to the 90