A/HRC/32/42 on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and will strive to identify possible joint initiatives that can complement the work of each mandate, including joint visits, joint follow-up to recommendations, joint communications on allegations of women’s rights violations and the issuance of press statements. B. Cooperation with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other treaty bodies 75. The Special Rapporteur recalls that the Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 1994/45 establishing the mandate, called upon the Special Rapporteur to carry out the mandate within the framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all other international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. In 2008, the Human Rights Council, in its resolution 7/24, added the Beijing Platform for Action to the framework, and called upon the Special Rapporteur to work closely with other special rapporteurs, special representatives and working groups. It also called upon the mandate holder to hold consultations with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and all other treaty bodies. The mandate holder intends to strengthen the engagement between her mandate and the Committee, and to hold regular consultations with it, so as to establish an institutionalized cooperation between these two mechanisms. As mentioned above, she has already begun to cooperate with the Committee in the updating of general recommendation No. 19. C. Cooperation within the United Nations system 76. The mandate holder recalls that it is also essential to maintain close cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization, UNFPA, UNESCO, the International Labour Organizations and, in particular, UN-Women, in order to strengthen coordination and coherence in the responses of the United Nations system, including at the country level, for the implementation of the different international and regional standards on eliminating violence against women. She would like to also continue work on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 23/25, which focuses on preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence in compliance with international human rights obligations. In this regard, she considers extremely important to develop strong cooperation with the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice of UNODC, which could be important to accelerate the implementation of the goals of the mandate at the level of national criminal justice systems. In addition, to be able to followup appropriately on her call for States to establish a “femicide watch” or “gender-related killing of women watch”, the mandate holder intends to hold regular consultations with UNODC. 77. With regard to violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations, and as already mentioned above, she also intends to strengthen cooperation with the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children. 20

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