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consequences, including with regard to her upcoming thematic report on “due
diligence”. The Executive Director of UN-Women met with the Special Rapporteur
in March 2011. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner, along with
UNFPA, were also represented at an expert group meeting on the topic of gendermotivated killings of women, convened by the Special Rapporteur on violence
against women in New York in October 2011.
11. The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, supported
by the Office of the High Commissioner, held a number of exchanges of information
with UN-Women during the period of preparation of her 2011 thematic reports to
the Human Rights Council and General Assembly, which focused on some aspects
of the multifaceted relationship between gender and the judiciary, within the broader
context of the administration of justice. UN-Women continued to exchange
information with other special procedures mandate-holders in relation to each
other’s activities, including during country visits of special rapporteurs supported by
the Office of the High Commissioner and its regional and country field presences,
one such visit being that of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, to Thailand in August 2011.
D.
Cooperation at the country level
12. Both UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner continued to
participate in the activities of United Nations country teams, with the goal of
promoting equality between women and men and the realization of women’s human
rights, including in joint programmes on human rights and on gender equality,
“Delivering as one” programmes, human rights and gender theme groups and a
range of task forces and other groups established at the national level. In particular,
UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner continued to support
implementation of the major international human rights instruments, including
through advocacy for legal and policy reforms and institutional support to national
machineries for gender equality and human rights departments.
13. For example, the United Nations Gender Thematic Group in Cameroon, of
which both entities are members, organized International Women’s Day events
including a march in the capital and seminars at two universities, and supported
various Government ministries in building their capacity in the area of women’s
human rights. The two entities are also cooperating to address gender-based
violence in Senegal and to strengthen women’s access to justice in Mali. In Senegal,
for instance, UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner, together with
civil society organizations, are organizing a series of activities in the context of the
16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence campaign. In Honduras and Panama,
UN-Women is working together with the Office of the High Commissioner on issues
involving women of African descent and indigenous women through training and
capacity development activities as well as in providing guidance on the preparation
of communications to special procedures mandate-holders. UN-Women and the
Office of the High Commissioner are also participating as members of the Global
Migration Group (GMG) in carrying out a four-country pilot project devised to
implement the guidance provided by the Global Migration Group publication
entitled Mainstreaming Migration into Development Planning: A Handbook for
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