A/HRC/11/37 requested at this time, as the Secretariat will to the extent possible absorb the additional requirements within the appropriations for section 23 (Human Rights) for the biennium 2008-2009. 9. With regard to paragraph 3, attention is drawn to the provisions of section VI of General Assembly resolution 45/248 B of 21 December 1990 and subsequent resolutions, the most recent of which is resolution 62/236 of 22 December 2007, in which the Assembly reaffirmed that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters and reaffirmed the role of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. 11/2. Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 10. In subparagraph 12 (d) of draft resolution A/HRC/11/L.5 (orally revised and adopted as resolution 11/2), the Council requested OHCHR to convene, in 2010, in cooperation with other relevant entities of the United Nations system, an expert workshop to discuss specific measures for overcoming obstacles and challenges that States may face in preventing, investigating, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, as well as measures for providing protection, support, assistance and redress for victims, and requested it to prepare, within existing resources, a summary report thereon to be submitted to the Council. 11. To implement the activities called for by the Council in subparagraph 12 (d), an estimated $172,800 would be required for the biennium 2010-2011, as follows: (a) under section 2 (General Assembly and Economic and Social Council Affairs and Conference Management), to provide conference servicing ($110,800); (b) under section 23 (Human Rights), to provide for the travel of 10 experts to attend the workshop ($60,400); and (c) under section 28 E (Administration, Geneva), for conference servicing ($1,600). The requirements in support of the activities have not been included in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011. During the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, a determination will be made in the revised estimates report on decisions taken by the Council on whether they can be met from within the provisions proposed under the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011. 11/3. Trafficking in persons, especially women and children 12. In paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of draft resolution A/HRC/11/L.6 (adopted as resolution 11/3), the Council: (a) Requested OHCHR to organize, within existing resources, and in close coordination with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, a two-day seminar aimed at identifying opportunities and challenges in the development of rights-based responses to trafficking in persons with a view to acknowledging emerging good practices and further promoting the practical application of the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, with the participation of Governments, the Special Rapporteur and other relevant special procedures, treaty bodies, United Nations specialized agencies and programmes, regional, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, academics, medical experts and representatives of victims, and to submit a report on the proceedings of the seminar to the Council; GE.09-16766 183

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