A/HRC/32/42 D. Cooperation with regional and national mechanisms dealing with violence against women 78. The Special Rapporteur encourages regional human rights systems to provide her with input, and seeks their views on implementation, since these systems have an important role in strengthening universal human rights standards. She is conscious of the importance of continuing to collect inputs from Member States and all stakeholders, including global, regional and national mechanisms and non-governmental organizations, to enable them to take fully informed decisions on the measures needed to accelerate the eradication of violence against women as a priority. VI. Conclusion and recommendations 79. The Special Rapporteur recognizes that the mandate has become a visible, respected and credible mechanism to guide States, civil society actors, other stakeholders and the international community on the elimination of violence against women, its causes and consequences. Since the establishment of the mandate in 1994, the landscape surrounding it has changed, with the development of international and regional frameworks and mechanisms on violence against women that direct the mandate, to reshape its role and to focus on prevention, implementation challenges and stronger collaboration with all other relevant global and regional mechanisms, in order to accelerate the elimination of violence against women, its causes and consequences. 80. In the view of the Special Rapporteur, there is a general lack of a holistic, comprehensive approach to combating and preventing gender-based violence and the fragmentation of various policies and legislation addressing violence against women and women’s rights. One of the Special Rapporteur’s key priorities will be to contribute to closing the gap in implementing existing international and regional instruments on violence against women, and to protect victims by providing them with adequate support services and effective remedies, and by prosecuting perpetrators. The mandate holder is convinced that the mandate has an important role to play in promoting synergies among existing international and regional instruments and systems on violence against women, with the purpose of accelerating and achieving their full implementation. She considers it important to improve synergies among the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women with the Optional Protocol thereto, the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), and to follow up on resolutions and/or regional instruments on violence against women, to achieve their full implementation and to accelerate the elimination of violence against women. 81. Notwithstanding the need to develop synergies between the international and regional human rights systems further, the Special Rapporteur considers it important to continue the discussion on the adequacy of international, regional and national legal frameworks to prevent and combat violence against women. In that respect, it is also important to consider new developments, such as the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in updating its general recommendation No. 19, in which the Special Rapporteur participated, which will incorporate the latest developments at the national, regional and international levels, and build upon the growing jurisprudence and work of the Committee, and the work of the Special Rapporteur. The update could indeed provide useful and very much needed additional guidance on steps that should be taken to address gender-based 21