A/HRC/13/71–E/CN.6/2010/8 United Nations General Assembly Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 17 December 2009 Original: English Human Rights Council Commission on the Status of Women Thirteenth session 1-26 March 2010 Item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Fifty-fourth session 1-12 March 2010 Item 3 (c) of the provisional agenda* Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”: gender mainstreaming, situations and programmatic matters Report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the activities of the Fund to eliminate violence against women Note by the Secretary-General The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit herewith to the Commission on the Status of Women and the Human Rights Council the report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the activities of the Fund to eliminate violence against women, which was prepared in compliance with General Assembly resolution 50/166. * E/CN.6/2010/1. 09-65802 (E) 120110 *0965802*