A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 57 2. Recommends that the Human Rights Council request the General Assembly to appeal to Member States to contribute more generously to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery to enable it to facilitate the participation of a larger number of victims of slavery and slavery-like practices and their representatives in meetings of the Working Group and to provide grants for projects that assist victims of slavery and slavery-like practices, and recommends that a member of the Working Group, designated by it, be invited to participate in the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, in order to increase synergy between the two bodies; 3. Commends to the attention of the Human Rights Council the record of the Working Group’s significant contribution to the identification of new forms and manifestations of slavery and slavery-like practices and to their eradication; 4. Emphasizes that the Working Group provides a unique platform for victims of slavery and slavery-like practices and non-governmental organizations to appear before an international forum attended by representatives of Governments and international organizations, and thus raises awareness of the persistent and new forms of slavery and slavery-like practices; 5. Recommends that the Working Group be maintained; 6. Also recommends that the Human Rights Council give consideration during the review of the system of expert advice to: (a) the possibility of entrusting a mandate to the Working Group for monitoring the implementation of slavery-related treaties in a framework of cooperation with parties to these treaties; and (b) the possibility of establishing a special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, or merging this mandate with that of another special rapporteur whose reports are discussed with the future expert advice mechanism, under a permanent agenda item and submitted, with the recommendations of the future expert advice mechanism, to the Human Rights Council for consideration. 21st meeting 24 August 2006 [Adopted without a vote. See chap. VIII.] 2006/18. Systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices during armed conflicts The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Recalling its resolution 2005/27 of 11 August 2005, Recalling also Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, which, inter alia, reaffirmed the need to implement fully international humanitarian and human rights law that protects the rights of women and girls during and after conflicts, as well as the report of the Secretary-General on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls, the role of women in peacebuilding and the gender dimensions of peace processes and conflict resolution (S/2002/1154) issued pursuant to that resolution,