A/HRC/12/50 unremunerated work, as well as for developing and promoting policies that facilitate the reconciliation of employment and family responsibilities; 9. Calls on States to ensure full representation and full equal participation of women in political, social and economic decision-making as an essential condition for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as a critical factor in the eradication of poverty; 10. Welcomes particularly the work undertaken by the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on women’s equality before the law; 11. Recognizes the important role played by the Council in addressing the issue of discrimination against women, in both law and practice; 12. Welcomes the convening of a panel on equality before the law during the eleventh session of the Council; 13. Notes that, although human rights treaty bodies and special procedures do, to some extent, address discrimination against women within their mandates, their attention to such discrimination is not systematic; 14. Also notes the work undertaken by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue; 15. Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a thematic study on discrimination against women, in law and practice, and on how the issue is addressed throughout the United Nations human rights system, in consultation with States, relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms and agencies, including the Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the agencies within the United Nations composite entity on gender equality and empowerment of women and all other relevant stakeholders, taking into account the efforts made in this regard, particularly by the Commission on the Status of Women; 16. Decides to address the above-requested thematic study at its fifteenth session, and to hold a half-day discussion on the issue in order to consider taking further possible action on discrimination against women at that session. 31st meeting 2 October 2009 [Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.] 12/18. The adverse effects of the movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, particularly with regard to the question of the enjoyment of all human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and the right to development, Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Recalling all Commission on Human Rights and Council resolutions on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights, in particular Commission resolutions 1995/81 of 8 March 38