A/HRC/16/33 E/CN.6/2011/8 with all of the Division workshops on reporting under and implementation of the Convention. 9. The Division for the Advancement of Women continued its interaction with special procedures mandate holders. In particular, the Division maintained contact with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, in the follow-up to the Secretary-General’s in-depth study on all forms of violence against women (A/61/122 and Add.1 and Corr.1) and General Assembly resolutions 61/143, 62/133, 63/155 and 64/137 on the intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women. In addition, OHCHR and the Division continued to exchange information in relation to the work of the Special Rapporteur. 10. Collaboration in support of intergovernmental bodies continued. In March 2010, the Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences addressed the Commission on the Status of Women at its fiftyfourth session. In February 2010, OHCHR moderated an online discussion on the theme “Women and human rights” as part of a series of United Nations discussions to contribute to the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women and the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. 1 OHCHR staff participated in parallel events to the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, such as an event on discriminatory laws, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In October 2010, the new Executive Director of UN Women, the Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences addressed the Third Committee of the General Assembly during the introduction of the agenda item on advancement of women. 11. Coordination of the preparation of reports to be submitted to intergovernmental bodies continued. OHCHR provided inputs to the reports of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (E/CN.6/2010/4), and on ending female genital mutilation (E/CN.6/2010/6), which were submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fourth session. The Division provided inputs to the thematic study of OHCHR on discrimination against women, in law and practice, and how the issue is addressed throughout the United Nations human rights system (see A/HRC/15/40), which was submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fifteenth session; and the report on good practices in efforts aimed at preventing violence against women, which is under preparation by OHCHR pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 14/12. III. Future cooperation, in the light of the establishment of UN Women 12. The General Assembly established the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), in resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence by consolidating the mandate and functions __________________ 1 4 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution I, annexes I and II. 10-65847

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