A/HRC/19/31 E/CN.6/2012/12 Discrimination against Women and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, addressed the Third Committee of the General Assembly during the introduction of the agenda item on advancement of women. UN-Women has provided its expertise on the issue of gender-based violence in support of the secretariats of several commissions of inquiry lead by the Office of the High Commissioner. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner are now exploring avenues for more systematic and sustainable cooperation on behalf of commissions of inquiry so as to ensure dedicated gender expertise in line with the report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security (S/2011/598). At the regional level, UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner, together with UNICEF, supported the work of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, through capacity-building activities, such as a study tour in January 2011 to Geneva and Strasbourg, which provided exposure to the work of international and regional human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. 19. The Office of the High Commissioner provided inputs to the report of the Secretary-General on the situation of and assistance to Palestinian women (E/CN.6/2011/6), which was submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fifth session. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner continued to support the implementation of global commitments on women and peace and security, including those contained in Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009) and 1960 (2010). The Office of the High Commissioner contributed to the above-mentioned report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security which was considered by the Council in October 2011. F. Information dissemination and development of tools 20. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner continued to update their databases and websites. As regards violence against women, the UN-Women website includes a Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls (www.endvawnow.org), which provides leading expert guidance, good practices and tools in support of country efforts to implement policies, laws and programmes designed to operationalize and implement international human rights standards. The UN-Women website continues to include the database of the Secretary-General on violence against women and work of intergovernmental bodies on violence against women, including the Human Rights Council, and its resolutions on the elimination of discrimination against women, the elimination of violence against women, and trafficking in persons, especially women and children; the work of the special procedures mandate-holders; the universal periodic review; and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner to the Human Rights Council. In June 2011, UN-Women issued the “Handbook for national action plans on violence against women”, which resulted from an expert group meeting held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in September 2010, in which a representative of the Office of the High Commissioner participated. The Handbook presents a model framework for national action plans on violence against women, which sets out detailed recommendations, accompanied by explanatory commentaries and good-practice examples. This Handbook adds to a series of tools that have been developed to 11-63199 9