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of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women,
the Division for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development Fund
for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women, with the additional role of leading, coordinating and
promoting the accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender
equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women is to be operational 1 January
2011.
13. UN Women is in the process of developing its future strategy, including its
coordination role within the United Nations system. The strategy will align with the
founding resolution. It will focus on expanding support to Member States at the
national level, in line with national priorities; strengthening coherence between the
normative support provided to global intergovernmental processes and the technical
and thematic advice provided to national partners at the country level; and
strengthening leadership, coordination and accountability on gender equality and
women’s empowerment and support to gender mainstreaming across the United
Nations system.
14. The realization of women’s human rights will be an essential part of the vision
and future strategy of UN Women. Cooperation between UN Women and OHCHR
will continue and will be strengthened under a mutually agreed broad strategic
framework of cooperation, including in connection with intergovernmental and
expert bodies and special procedures, capacity-building activities, awareness-raising
on women’s human rights, gender mainstreaming and inter-agency initiatives, such
as the Global Migration Group currently chaired by OHCHR, UN Action against
Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender
Equality and the Inter-Agency Cooperation Group against Trafficking in Persons.
Specific areas of focus will include support for implementation of the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and follow-up to
the Committee’s concluding observations, particularly at the national level; the
universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council; the Special Rapporteur on
violence against women, its causes and consequences; and the newly established
Working Group of the Human Rights Council on discrimination against women in
law and in practice. Common thematic priority areas include human rights of
women; violence against women; trafficking in persons; discriminatory laws,
including with respect to economic, social and cultural rights; women, peace and
security; and global migration.
15. In the upcoming months, UN Women and OHCHR will elaborate further the
framework and details in respect of their cooperation. The results will be reported to
the Commission at its fifty-sixth session in the joint workplan for the period 20112012.
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