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16. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner support the integration
of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women and other human rights treaties and commitments into national
constitutional, and legislative and policy frameworks. They support Governments,
parliamentarians and women’s organizations in undertaking initiatives focused on
introducing laws and policies or strengthening them so as to ensure that they are
gender-sensitive. UN-Women supports, for example, the revision of the marriage
law and adoption of a gender-equality law in Indonesia; the review of proposed draft
laws from a Convention perspective in Viet Nam; the development of laws on
gender-based violence in Guinea-Bissau and on domestic work in Paraguay, with a
view to broadening the rights of women domestic workers; and the drafting of laws
in the context of the Legal Commission for the Equity of Women in Colombia.
Offices of the Office of the High Commissioner, in coordination with United
Nations country teams, also advocate for legal reforms aimed at eliminating
discrimination against women and guaranteeing equality in accordance with
international human rights standards, for example, in the former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia with respect to the draft law on gender equality, in Afghanistan with
respect especially to family and personal status laws, and in Uganda and
Timor-Leste with respect to laws on women’s access to land. UN-Women and the
Office of the High Commissioner have also worked together in supporting the
Human Rights Commission in Zimbabwe, for instance, by jointly organizing a
workshop on gender equality and women’s rights for the Commission, which
included the participation of a member of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women.
17. In the area of reparations, UN-Women and the Office of the High
Commissioner are cooperating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the
piloting of a community reparations programme as a follow-up to the high-level
panel on sexual violence in that country, which was convened by the Office of the
High Commissioner in 2010. UN-Women and the Office of the High Commissioner
are also collaborating on gender-sensitive reparations programmes in other
countries, for example, Uganda and Nepal. The Office of the High Commissioner, as
a co-lead entity of the Team of Experts on sexual violence in conflict established
under Security Council resolution 1888 (2009), benefited from its cooperation with
UN-Women during the Team’s deployment to Liberia in April 2011 and South Sudan
in June 2011. During both missions, UN-Women provided briefings and advice
which facilitated the Team’s work on the ground.
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Intergovernmental bodies
18. Collaboration in support of intergovernmental bodies continued. The Chair of
the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Special
Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, addressed the
Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fifth session in February 2011. The
Executive Director of UN-Women addressed the Human Rights Council at its
full-day discussion on women’s rights held in June 2011. In September 2011, the
UN-Women Focal Point for Women in the United Nations System participated in a
panel discussion on gender integration at the Human Rights Council. In October
2011, the UN-Women Deputy Executive Director, Intergovernmental Support and
Strategic Partnerships Bureau, the Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of
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