A/HRC/19/31 E/CN.6/2012/12 26. Collaboration in support of intergovernmental bodies will continue. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will seek input and provide comments for reports to be submitted to intergovernmental bodies, and exchange information and cooperate on follow-up to any actions taken by the Commission on the Status of Women or the Human Rights Council. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will exchange information and seek to collaborate in assisting the Human Rights Council in integrating gender perspectives in its work, including with respect to the universal periodic review process and the work of the special procedures; and, more generally, UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to support the Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, in respect of participation in the sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women. UN-Women, in coordination with the Office of the High Commissioner, will also aim to facilitate the participation of the Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice in the sessions of the Commission. UN-Women will continue its interaction and collaboration with the special procedures mandate-holders, including the Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences. UN-Women will continue its support in connection with the preparation of the 2013 thematic report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women on States’ responsibility regarding due diligence in relation to violence against women. UN-Women looks forward to working with the new mandate-holder, the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice and Reparation, to ensure women’s access to comprehensive justice for conflict-related crimes. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will update and develop their databases, websites and knowledge tools in relation to women’s human rights. At the regional level, UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner will continue to cooperate closely, together with UNICEF and UNDP, on providing support to the ASEAN Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children and the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and their secretariats. IV. Recommendations for new and strengthened modalities for cooperation between UN-Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 27. A joint workplan has been prepared annually on the basis of resolutions on mainstreaming women’s human rights (Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 38/2 (1994) and 39/5 (1995)) and on integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations system (Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/43 (1997) and Human Rights Council resolution 6/30 (2007)). These resolutions emphasize the importance of coordination and cooperation in respect of women’s human rights, and the integration of women’s rights and a gender perspective throughout the work of the United Nations system. 28. The decision of the General Assembly, in its resolution 64/289, to establish UN-Women brought into being a new entity with unique mandates which span intergovernmental and normative support and inter-agency, policy and operational work and include country, regional and global programming, strategic partnership 12 11-63199

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