A/HRC/16/33 E/CN.6/2011/8 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. 10-65847 5

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