A/HRC/7/78 page 35 (g) To apply a gender perspective in its reporting process, including in information collection and the formulation of recommendations; (h) To provide appropriate assistance in the implementation by States of the Declaration and of the existing international rules; (i) To continue its deliberations on its working methods and to include these aspects in its reporting process to the Council; (j) To submit a regular report on the implementation of its mandate to the Council in accordance with its annual programme of work; 3. Calls on Governments that have not provided for a long period of time substantive replies concerning claims of enforced disappearances in their countries to do so and to give due consideration to relevant recommendations concerning this issue made by the Working Group in their reports; 4. Urges States: (a) To promote and give full effect to the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances; (b) To cooperate with the Working Group and help it to carry out its mandate effectively and, in that framework, give serious consideration to requests for visits to their countries; (c) To prevent the occurrence of enforced disappearances, including by guaranteeing that any person deprived of liberty is held solely in officially recognized and supervised places of detention, guaranteeing access to all places of detention by authorities and institutions whose competence in this regard has been recognized by the concerned State, maintaining official, accessible, up-to-date registers and/or records of detainees, and ensuring that detainees are brought before a judicial authority promptly after detention; (d) To work to eradicate the culture of impunity for the perpetrators of enforced disappearances and to elucidate cases of enforced disappearances as crucial steps in effective prevention; (e) To prevent and investigate with special attention cases of enforced disappearance of persons belonging to vulnerable groups, especially children, and to bring the perpetrators of these enforced disappearances to justice; (f) To take steps to provide adequate protection to witnesses of enforced or involuntary disappearances, human rights defenders acting against enforced disappearances and the lawyers and families of disappeared persons against any intimidation or ill-treatment to which they might be subjected;