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UN-Women, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner will support
follow-up to the Committee’s concluding observations and the implementation of
the Convention and other human rights treaties and commitments, through the
development and reform of constitutional, and legislative and policy frameworks.
As mentioned above, cooperation between UN-Women and the Office of the High
Commissioner will continue in the area of reparations for conflict-related sexual
violence. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, the two entities
will continue their work aimed at delivering reparations benefits to different
communities, as a step leading towards the development of a national reparations
programme. The two entities will ensure that truth commissions, commissions of
inquiry and accountability mechanisms for violations of international law have the
gender expertise necessary to fulfil their mandates through a coordinated approach.
The Office of the High Commissioner, as a co-lead entity of the team of experts
created pursuant to Security Council resolution 1888 (2009), will continue to
cooperate with UN-Women in its field missions and will explore avenues for
enhanced collaboration in the near future. Their collaboration in the field of gender
integration will be strengthened within the framework of the System-wide Action
Plan on gender equality and empowerment of women (SWAP) for which the Office
of the High Commissioner has agreed to serve as a pilot during the initial phase of
its development.
24. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to pursue
joint capacity development initiatives on improving States’ responses to violence
against women, on intersectional discrimination and on the enjoyment of social,
economic and cultural rights, in follow-up to the universal periodic review and
reports by thematic special procedures. In El Salvador and the Dominican Republic,
for example, UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will advance
regional initiatives designed to deepen the understanding of evolving forms of
violence against women, to identify and document responses from the justice
systems on such violence, and to design tools and methodological guides for
investigating violence against women and combating impunity. The Office of the
High Commissioner will continue to strengthen cooperation with UN-Women on
joint activities designed to facilitate, implement and promote the SecretaryGeneral’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women”. Further, the Office
of the High Commissioner will continue to work closely with UN-Women and the
United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against
Women, including on facilitating the Programme Appraisal Committee’s vision to
strengthen reference to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence
against Women and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on violence against
women, its causes and consequences, in the project review process.
25. In the context of the review of rule of law in peacebuilding, the Office of the
High Commissioner will cooperate with UN-Women and other United Nations
entities on the development of a guidance note for system-wide use on gender and
the rule of law, a process led by UN-Women. UN-Women and the Office of the High
Commissioner will continue and strengthen their cooperation in relation to women’s
access to justice, including in connection with the proposed establishment of a task
force on women’s access to justice of the Inter-agency Network on Women and
Gender Equality, and on ensuring that a gender perspective is mainstreamed into all
transitional justice measures supported by the United Nations.
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